[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Yes, but part of the support system we're discussing is directly working to help people, and since folks like ourselves were not in anyway a part of his own support system, any judgments we pass, good or bad, are just needless meddling gossip. As to the wealthy? Its gossip too. I was just discussing with !@#$%!'s point, and your agreement, that wealth or power might bridge the gap between freedom and the human need for belonging to others which by definition limits personal freedom and empowers other people. Wealth or power alone can't do this, and if anything might hinder such, rather individual readjustment and applied effort to build and sustain supportive relationships will suffice. You will inherently sacrifice freedoms, but you will gain all the more. Even evolutionarily speaking, human beings are social mammals, we can't survive independent of each other. We must sacrifice aspects of ourselves for the benefit of the group, it is the basis of survival of the fittest for social mammals like ourselves. Shit, even isolated or solitary creatures have to momentarily yield to etiquette when on those few occasions they interact with their own kind, in order to reproduce. No reproduction? Evolutionary dead end. In social mammals, even those who never reproduce still contribute to the overall group, and maintain a critical role in the success of the species, even if not directly contributing offspring to the gene pool. Plus, DNA isn't everything, genes simply lay out options and potentialities, its the interaction with real life and the environment which determine those which are activated, and those which will remain dormant.