“Most abstract uses of the word “we” are extremely dangerous instances of a category error, for they refer to no actual group, but rather, a linguistic illusion, or delusion… which projects a possible union into an abstract domain, usually for purposes that are malformed and unexamined.

This form of ‘false counting’ tends to severely damage our fundamental relations with concepts of identity, membership, and communion. The resulting damage is accomplished by a conceptual trick: to group together that which is actually divided, and to assert this grouping in a domain that nowhere exists. It cannot exist. For it is a pure abstraction, and thus has no domain of existence beyond language.”

— an intelligence agent