Original sentence: Critics of Peterson's reasoning suggest that his argument is based on a fallacious false-dichotomy that implies individual and group rights are mutually exclusive, separate and opposed; instead proposing that the two are inherently connected and require one another to ensure both are secured.If people are unable to determine their collective future, they are certainly unable to assert or ensure their individual rights, future and freedoms.In contrast to individual-collective dichotomy proposed by Peterson and contemporaries, critics suggest that both are necessarily connected and intertwined, rejecting the assertion that they exist in a mutually exclusive relationship.Peterson cites this supposed-sacrifice of the individual for the collective as reason to oppose and dismiss left-wing ideologies, with particular reference to his limited personal understanding of Communism, alleging that "group rights are catastrophic".Proponents of this philosophy, currently primarily represented by figures such as Jordan Peterson (as of 2018), situate individual rights as in dialectical opposition to 'Collective' rights, suggesting that the two are mutually exclusive, and that philosophies and political theories that value collective rights do so at the expense of the individual and their rights.Without certain collective rights, for example, a cardinal principle in international law, enshrined in Chapter I Article I of the United Nations Charter, secures the right of "Self-determination of peoples".Without this group right, the people have no means or authority to assert the individual rights that self-determination enables the establishment of
Edited sentence: Collectivist and communist states are generally considered to be oppressive by such classical liberals and libertarians precisely because they do not respect individual rights