Individual obligation vs. society's obligation

I don't really think society has any responsibility to the individual, because societies are constructs created through interaction between individuals. Societies essentially function in accordance to how individuals believe they should. Whether that involves an isolated or interventionist society is dependent upon the collective action of individuals. For instance, individuals through collective action may determine that society abstracted as government needs to provide the safety nets for individuals. Alternatively, individuals may instead create a social dichotomy in which individuals provide safety nets through personal responsibility, families, and communal support.

Societies cannot exist without the individual, and therefore creating an individual-societal dichotomy oversimplifies what should be, which I think is that individuals should only be obligated to each other. Justifying individual obligation to society being a societal obligation to the individual is in a word, collectivism. Something that I feel is inherently dehumanizing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'd argue that the opposite is true, but then you weren't really paying attention to what I said. Individuals have no obligation to society because society represents the collective will of individuals. Individuals should instead behold themselves to each other instead of relying on a government which represents abstracted society to force them into doing so.

There's nowhere I can't reach.