The trench warfare is real today, and there are many trenches that you can pick to become consumed with. Left vs right, citizens vs immigrants, white vs black, male vs female, poor vs rich, and so on. When engaging in such trench warfare it's necessary to engage in groupthink, to lump dozens or millions of people together in one group, and make a myriad of generalizations and assumptions.

But that's difficult for the voluntaryist who takes every individual on their own account, as being responsible for their own actions.

It's unreasonable to group together many individuals based on the actions of a few or many of those members, or based on rumors etc. There are extreme factions to be found within any group, and their actions can easily overshadow the well-meaning intentions and work of the others in the group.

Seeing individuals on their own, being responsible for their own actions regardless of the group, makes it impossible to engage for example, in the concepts of prejudice and bigotry as a result. Because the actions of one individual shouldn't be justification to judge or limit the freedom of another.

The state operates in and promotes a herd mindset, free thinkers are a threat. And a state which doesn't respect the natural rights of the individual, the smallest minority, cannot claim to defend or stand for liberty and freedom. Too often the will of the individual is sacrificed for the general will of the public and this poses a threat to the individual.

Unity is never going to be a political product. People cannot be forced to unite. Voluntary exchanges and markets are what helps to genuinely bring people together for good, not government.

We have a choice to see individuals and not just lump people together and see only in collectivist terms.

Supporting individual liberty means supporting the right of the individual to engage with whoever they want, and it is a cruel injustice to suggest that certain individuals should have their freedom limited because of fears that some might hold over actions that were the responsibility of others.

Every individual is valuable and has something to offer and we only do ourselves a disservice when we refuse to acknowledge or be open to the good in others, because we're too busy clutching onto our collectivist fears.

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