Condemning it as a sin, however, does not require enacting legislation. Conflating the natural moral law and positive human law must be resisted. Not everything in the moral law neither should be, nor can be, present in the positive law. It would cease to be generous. The Human Person in Community Machan's third insight builds upon the first two.
Human beings are inherently social creatures.
Such a recognition helps avoid problems of overstatement. There is a tendency within political theory to pit individualism against collectivism, the solitary individual standing over and against the community. This is a false dichotomy. By affirming the social nature of the person, we acknowledge the fundamental fact of human individuality, yet we also recognize that this individuality can only exist and flourish in community. The question for humans is not whether to form a community, but rather what kind of community.