Not physical adjacents, no. If your brother lives two thousand miles away you should still focus on him more than your neighbor. I'm unsure what Vance has to d

Not physical adjacents, no. If your brother lives two thousand miles away you should still focus on him more than your neighbor. I'm unsure what Vance has to do with this. My belief comes from my religious upbringing and (in this case) Saints Augustine and Aquinas. Vance is not a spiritual leader or theologian of any sort. I think I absorbed much of this when I was pretty young - I had sort of settled on this way of thinking before ever picking up Civitas Dei - but reading and writing on it during my schooling helped me understand why.