Society is a term for a collection of individuals.  It’s not an entity.  The “rights” of it don’t exist.  There are only property rights.  It doesn’t have any rights.  The rights are conjured up to disguise evil.  It can then be blamed for all evils in the world.  If a crime is committed, society is to be blamed.  What that means, everyone is guilty, even the victim.  Don’t follow evil, society is just a description.

This nonsense can lead many to believe society is a hero or villain.  It can be used to praise certain actions and blame others.  The term is just a convenience for referring to a group of individuals.  It’s individuals, nothing more, nothing less.  It’s not an extra person with its own rights that supersede yours.  In other words, it’s not a noun and shouldn’t be used as one.  For every evil, the group is blamed.  It’s the individual(s) with the evil actions.

How often do we hear: society is to blame?  This makes them sound humanitarian.  However, it’s disguised evil.  What this means, everyone is to blame, even the victim.  Even though it was only the victimizer who committed the crime.  So, these “humanitarians” are blaming the innocent.  The “humanitarians” want to make decisions for all individuals.  The victimizer is responsible, not everyone.

Society is not an individual.  It doesn’t have rights.  Only individuals have rights.  Groups of individuals can band together and lie themselves strengths.  If a crime is committed by that group, the individual members of that group are committing the crime.  Society is not to blame.  The masses easily commit crimes they would never commit individually.  If you do this, maybe you’re not the great humanitarian you think you are.

Society is just a term for a group of individuals.  It’s not a quasi-individual with rights that supersede the individuals’ rights.  The only just society is one where man doesn’t have power over another.  A society can only become totalitarian if those individuals are acting in a totalitarian manner.  As Plato said, “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when adults are afraid of the light.”

Reference

Murray Rothbard; For a New Liberty