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Put another way: North Korea doesn't have an atomic bomb. A few hundred people in North Korea do.
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This is (the nexus of) a key insight, IMO. Tricking people into thinking about groups instead of thinking about people is a incredibly effective technique for propogating the atrocities of statism. People are willing to do things for the "greater good" or for "the nation" that they would never do if they were thinking about the actual human-to-human interactions involved.
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If people surrender their moral independence to some “morally-superior” collective (or, more accurately, some madman claiming to speak for such a non-existent entity), then of course violence is the inevitable result. Irrational and collectivist moral absolutes are the fundamental WMDs of our species.
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