We human beings live naturally in communities, bound together by mutual trust. We have need for a shared home, a place of safety where our claim to occupancy is undisputed and where we can call on others to assist us in times of threat. We need peace with our neighbors and the procedures for securing it. And we need the love and protection afforded by family life. To revise the human condition in any of those respects is to violate imperatives rooted in biology and in the needs of social reproduction.
-Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
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