How do you perceive the balance between individual freedom and social responsibility in a society that prioritizes equal distribution of wealth?

I think the fundamental difference between you and I is that you think political power, the legal privilege of using brute force on innocent people, is totally fine if it's democratic, whereas I believe it's fine under no circumstances and ought to be absolutely minimised because it is EVIL. You support trusting majorities with political power, I am too much of a realist and have seen too much of human nature to trust such unnatural power to ANYONE UNDER THE SUN. You support maximising the authority of majorities, allowing the 51% to enslave the 49%, I support maximising the authori…  Read morety of individual men and women over their own lives, because no one knows how to run their lives, liberties, and properties better than themselves. A republic is not a form of democracy, a true republic is a government that stays in its one and only lane – defence against aggressive crimes and invasions, and protecting property rights – thus maximising individual autonomy and sovereignty and minimising the ability of anyone to rule over another.