beastie wrote: Everything we do affects one another.
From which it follows that everything that affects someone else, which is everything human beings do, given that such effects are both vast, complex, subtle, unpredictable, and interconnected, should be regulated, controlled, and mediated by the state to ensure that none of these effects, or as few as possible, produce negative, unfair, or inequitable outcomes for those affected (everyone).
This is, in a nutshell, the fundamental mentality behind all theories of collectivist utopian social and economic organization and the ideological forms of statism - including totalitarian statism - that have so blighted the last century.
It begins as a "great society," moves to "democratic socialism," from there to a "third way," between a fully collectivized society and democratic representative government, and from there to "transformational" socialist ideals of social and economic life.
The end is despotism and serfdom, either with a jack boot or a smiley face, the distinction has little difference depending upon one's sense of self-integrity as a son or daughter of God.