In the play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Thoreau examines several different ways in which individuals interact with society. One of them is individualism. Individualism is the idea that all values people hold, rights they have, and duties to be performed should originate from or within an individual. Of greater importance is the idea that individualism is based on altruism, rather than egoism. Altruism is the performance of acts that are motivated by selflessness, for the benefit of others. Egoistic acts, on the other hand, are acts based on self-interest. If self-interest is based on selfish motives then it is a destructive thing, not positive.
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