Quote Originally Posted by Traitorfish
How can individuality exist without a group to be individual from?
Individuality can only exist in the complete absence of external influences. As that also tends to drive people insane, the best one can do is try to ignore most social/media ideas and decide things for oneself. Individuals who consider their individuality based on the actions or opinions of others are not individuals at all. The group is the antithesis of the individual.

I'm 100% for individuality, but when you're talking about nations, indiviudality becomes fairly different. How can you run a nation like that? You have to think of people as groups. Any sociologist will tell you that.
Not so. The only just way to run a nation is to consider each and every person within it of exactly equal value, entitled to exactly the same*, and with exactly the same rights. (Ideally, to also extend those same beliefs to every Human on Earth.) Groups exist because of like-minded individuals, nothing more. They simply gain more power than they should have because many are lazy or submit to peer pressure.

* If you're wondering, I actually do think everyone is entitled to exactly the same thing - that which their labor earns them.

The good of the majority is fairly self-explanitary. It means 'things which are good for the majority', such as nationalised indurty and healthcare, rather than good for the minority, such as privatised industry.
The only consideration should be 'What is best for the individual?'. The answer is simple; freedom. Freedom requires a lack of social controls, a lack of legal controls, and a lack of economic controls. Because not everyone can be trusted to act appropriately, it is acceptable to create a governmental organization to ensure those controls are avoided, even though said government by definition counters both the second and third tenets there. The government's sole purpose in existence is the preserve the freedoms of the individuals within the boundaries of a national border. Anything further is unacceptable and undeniably contrary to the most essential driving force of Mankind - sentience.