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Arbitrary individual autonomy is a fallacious concept, as you fastidiously argue. It derives from radical subjective idealism, whereby in society everyone chooses their own reality - thereby negating social interactions. Philosophy recognizes arbitrary individual autonomy as the egocentric predicament, which posits that society disappears and, perhaps, the empirical world. Ralph Barton Perry in 1910 described this “reductio ad absurdum” of George Berkeley’s arguments for subjective idealism. Psychology describes radical “arbitrary individual autonomy” as a radical form of the solipsistic syndrome … which negates the reality of the “world.” That is, psychosis. Arbitrary individual autonomy, in its radical form, wishes the destruction of the world outside the ego. Your argument is a political position against the lunacy of political positions advocating suicide; the corollary could be the destruction of the world outside the ego. What a world that would “not be.” Underneath the surface of suicide, perhaps, lies the will to destroy every thing.

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