Would you live in this community?

Anyone may enter or leave the community at any time.

All members of the community are responsible for the lives of all members of the community.

Local groups within the community agree to help produce food and shelter for every person in that group, and the wider community agrees to share food in the event of a local shortage.

All members of the community also agree to share fresh water as well as medical supplies and expertise when needed.

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Every human group is part of an ecosystem of other organisms, both local and global.

Plants and animals cannot use language to agree to community membership, but they can feed and otherwise help us and we can in turn become responsible for their lives.

Though we end the lives of the animals whose meat we eat, we must care for the living as we would for anyone else in the community.