Michael Malice, here, because when it comes down to it in the end, he simply wants to be alone:
"I simply pray to be left alone."
Aristotle, Politics 1, 1253:
A man that is by nature and not merely by fortune citiless is either low in the scale of humanity or above it inasmuch as he is solitary ... the clanless, lawless, hearthless man reviled by Homer, for one by nature unsocial is also a lover of war. ...
The city-state is prior in nature to the household and to each of us individually. ...
When the whole body is destroyed, foot or hand will not exist except in an equivocal sense. ...
If each individual when separate is not self-sufficient, he must be related to the whole state as other parts are to their whole, while a man who is incapable of entering into partnership, or who is so self-sufficing that he has no need to do so, is no part of a state, so that he must be either a lower animal or a god. ...
