To suggest there is no merit in understanding that we are members of a larger group gives evidence to what I am saying.

By definition (in the society sense), a "group" is any collection of people larger than the individual.

Without appreciation for any larger group as a group of individuals, the self becomes Supreme to everyone else within the scope of a social construct. So let's take it to the extreme. Imagine a world where there is a complete absence of appreciation for the larger group. In this hypothetical world, the whims of the individual, their "right to choose their own path" allows and even encourages behavior that can harm the group or the individuals that make it up. Such allowed behavior includes robbing people, raping them, murdering them, stealing their children for your ritual sacrifice, etc.. You must have appreciation for others, even those you don't know, as both individuals and as a group, for society to not devolve into this. Further, you must have an appreciation for the Sovereignty of others in order to fully appreciate anyone else or the larger group of others (society). In an understanding of this Sovereignty, there is an intrinsic understanding that we are all equal. This is the only true equality of humanity. We are all equally Sovereign, and we all have the exact same Jurisdiction that we are Sovereign of (Right to defend our own life, Right to pursue our own path through life, Right to defend our property, etc.).

If you do not appreciate the larger group, you do not appreciate the Sovereignty of the individuals that make it up, and vise versa. If you espouse only the Sovereignty of self, and ignore or lessen the Sovereignty of the larger collective, and that that Sovereignty is exactly equal to our own, then you are espousing precisely the founding premise of modern Satanism, because the belief that the Sovereignty of Self must be of paramount importance to an appreciation of others (instead of understanding them to all be equal) is their fundamental principle.