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It sucks that the symbol is associated with assholes. I'm pretty left, but I've always liked the Don't Tread on Me flag.. The average person displaying this flag treads all over people's rights constantly, though.
The emphasis is on "Me"
Yeah. It's not an expression of mutual defense, it's an expression of self defense only.
It doesn't say "Don't tread on my neighbor."
It doesn't say "I won't tread on you." Snakes conveniently don't wear boots.
Hell, it doesn't even say "I'll stick up for my neighbor after they defend themselves from you."
Being individually free does not necessitate an oppressive structure within the collective -- if all individuals are free, then the collective must also be free.
This seems like it should be true, but unfortunately game theory shows that it is not, due to coordination problems. It's possible for everyone to have individual free choice in their actions, and yet the collective to be incapable of making the choice that everyone would individually prefer it to make. The elementary example of this is the Prisoner's Dilemma.
Interestingly, real humans turn out to be better at resolving coordination problems than a purely selfish algorithm is.