No, it isn't an "age-old tension," and I urge all readers not to be duped by this nonsense.

There is no "society" apart from the individual human beings who compose it.

I repeat: There is no “society” apart from the individual human beings who compose it.

This is a popular logical fallacy — popular most especially among so-called experts.

Any person or institution — any — positing this grade-school false-dichotomy fallacy is without any question wrong. They are arrantly, incontrovertibly wrong. As Robert Wachter (MD) is incontrovertibly wrong here, in his sloppy tendentious article with all of 30 claps (and counting).

This article, written by a putative person of science — a presumably licensed physician — will, you may depend upon it, be eternally consigned to the dustbin of human knowledge, which is precisely where it belongs.