On balance, Collectivism is preferable to Individualism

I apologize for the condensing of the arguments last round as I tried to consolidate arguments into an easy track able part, but it appears that I have done the opposite. Contention 1: Slavery I understand that utilitarianism is the greatest utility over the loss and slavery would meet that justification. (I’m not endorsing Slavery, but am just making this argument) You see we actually improved the lives of Africans by bringing them over here from Africa. The Slave trade took up place when tribal leaders would go to war and sell the defeated armies instead of killing them. So we firstly saved their lives. When we brought them over we gave them food, water, and housing. We also encouraged them to build a nuclear family on the plantation, though families were broken up often to build profit from sales. We also gave them a religion from their atheism or Muslim faith. The religion seemingly gave them a push to fight for freedom through their works as slave owners made promises if they met certain quotas that they would be free. The South also showed that the Slave in the South had it better than the freed black in the north by showing that in the north the freedman was poor, homeless, jobless, and starving, all things that slavery prevented. The North rejected them and it was obvious when the Civil Rights movement went north and the protests became violent. You can see that slavery is justified under utilitarianism and is a black spot that Pro is not willing to show. Contention 2: Motivation My opponent attacks my communism attack, but when we look to the example of FDR’s New Bill of Rights we can see otherwise. FDR was attempting to establish the US a collectivist welfare state, but he failed to see that if we had all that money coming in that we would need someone to actually supply the funds and was not pursued by President Truman because of this premise. (. http://www.heritage.org...) You can see that we can apply this to the collectivist society that once again that we wouldn’t have the motivation to do anything except hold out our hand and ask for help while giving none back. My opponent dropped my free rider argument so I extend that across the board. He also dropped the Overpopulation argument so I extend that across showing that if there is overpopulation the collectivist society would require the most amount of minerals and would lead to an anti-utopian society much like The Unwind by Neil Shusterman or The Giver. Contention 3: Communities My opponent argues that his argument doesn’t require communities, but the point of collectivism is that you need a society to help better and have them in turn better you. Now my opponent states that we favor communities due to families and tribes, but in my definition that I had provided from Tocqueville in my 2nd round argument showed that individualism can occur when the person is secluded into families and/or a small group of friends which my opponent’s argument thus goes into my favor here stating that humanity prefers Individualistic type societies. This argument is key to this debate, because without communities there can be no one to help better and in turn you can’t be bettered as you are relying on a Collectivist Society which does not exist for you. Contention 4: Individualism benefits society The definition states that the needs of the individual should be considered an ethnic paramount and my argument applies that for say a business owner starts a new business in a seeking selfish gains of money incentives only. He in turn creates several jobs, GDP, and helps provide a certain new (or old) product to the market for consumers to purchase thus creating stock in which Wall Street can invest in and they would also help the business as the Wall Street investors would also be getting a gain. You can see that even by a selfish motive of just creating wealth by starting a business you in turn create a massive amount of stimulace for the economy to grow and you help the society better itself thanks to your desire to risk it all for whatever purpose that you desire. Contention 5: Egoism My opponent states that the reason that there is no collectivist societies is because individualism took its selfish roots, but one can see that the selfishness helped lead to the betterment of society. People invent several things for a monetary profit and in turn better society. Whether it would be Edison’s invention lab that came forth with the light bulb, the telephone, the railroad, the industrialization of the US, or even the internet. US is one of the world’s greatest economic powerhouses and would not be so if a British engineer had come to the US to sell the ideas and turn the US into an Industrial giant. So we can see that the all humans are selfish that people will prefer Individualism and we can see that over history the humans have bettered their society through collectivism.