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The character of Spock shares the same belief system as you. He shares the common belief that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or of the one. But if you would prefer a non-fiction example of some people shared this philosophy, we can look at Karl Marx (though even he wasn't a Marxist), Frederick Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Mao Tse Tung, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, etc.
The vast majority of them were murderers and at the very least...authoritarians in the extreme. They had to be that way because collectivism in the form of communism violates human nature, and it requires brutal force to exist.
Individualism and self-reliance in a capitalist platform on the other hand, don't require any force, and actually work in real life without harming or violating the rights of anyone.
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"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
- George Carlin
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