Worst Case Scenario

by T.J. Newman

This is what community is. It’s not a place, it’s not a people—it’s the acts of love done in a place by those people.

That day last April, it was declared in every way that it isn’t about the individual. It’s about the whole. The collective. The greater good.” President Dawson thought for a moment. He cocked his head. “But it’s a paradox. Because what is the whole without the individual? If we do not care for the life of one person, how do the lives of millions have meaning?