> Who does a person belong too? Their Maker if you believe in one (read declaration of independence to see similar views around foundation of America), or no

> Who does a person belong too? Their Maker if you believe in one (read declaration of independence to see similar views around foundation of America), or no one I suppose if you are an atheist. This is why the government shouldn't tell you what to believe in. > We are nothing without our communities. Naked apes at the mercy of fate. You own your community/government in the US. Not the other way around. For example, conscientuous objection to participating in combat, for soldiers! (As government property as you get) is a thing because ultimately the government lacks authority over a person to override their beliefs or ways. The "community" as you put it only has authority over you over activities that affect it. My suggestion is to simply remove people from a community who refuse to play by its rules while allowing them to pursue their own ways. > It is our communities that make us able to survive. Our families, neighbors, friends, foes, we are all in it together. Bonds of love and mutual obligation Communities are consensual relationships not ones formed out of natural hierarchial authority over others. None of what you said here is relevant because the subject here is when people are being forced to do things against their will just because the majority wants it that way, making them lesser subjects and prisoners of the community instead of equal and consensual participants of it. > Supporting each other, meeting the needs of others and having our needs met does not mean we live in North Korea When your support jails people or makes it so that they can't function without conformance, it does indeed become opressive to them. > Mutual aid is not the end of individual liberty. It is the engine that makes it possible That's nice but what part of this topic is mutual aid?