1.
Nobly, with one hand, as tautology: 'Of course we care more about the whole than about any individual.' Pragmatically, with the other hand, also as tautology: 'And the whole is what these particular individuals define it to be.'
We played that shell-game over the entire twentieth century. I'm disinterested in institutions that continue to reason in this way. Can institutions exist which take the resistance of individuals as a clue to the gap between the reality of the existing multiplicity (which is never the whole you think it is or will it to be) and its official representation?
2.
If you put yourself in a position to provide feedback, don't seek to escape feedback on the feedback. Far from being a waste of time, argumentative, a drag on efficiency, or a change of subject, reciprocity is a vector of steep dialectical ascent, i.e., one of the more straightforward ways in which the Good shows itself to be co-referenced in any intentional object, just as necessarily and just as originally as the True.
(Mereology. Recursion. Two baby steps toward the metalogical analysis of institutions.)