I find this view very unsettling. Everything I have and love, and everything almost everyone has, is thanks to society. I suppose that includes the bad as well as the good, but really society has brought so much joy that the only way I can imagine someone saying it can only bring hurt is if they don't see how society has helped them. I guess if you are a hermit society doesn't do much for you, and in that case good for you.

I have to assume that what you mean by society is no the same I mean by society. Society gives such basic things as language (not any particular language, but the existence of any language).

Most of us are in perpetual debt to society, deriving from it much more value than we can ever hope to give back.