In this libertarian conception we connect to different people in different ways on the basis of free and voluntary consent. It emerges not because anyone plans it, certainly not because the state creates it, but because it must. To fulfill their needs and desires, individuals must combine with others. The rules of the family or small group are not, cannot be, the rules of the extended society. The distinction between individual and community can be misleading.
Some critics say that community involves a surrender of one's individuality.
Such a view of community requires that membership be chosen, not compulsory.