Excuse me for saying so, but you’re escaping into abstract theory. The issue we should be addressing here is the sense of belonging, that ‘it’s okay to be here’. And then, with regard to the meaning of this sense of belonging, it is the community we can see that is stronger. You will agree with that, won’t you? For example, if we compare the ‘company’ community with the ‘earth’ community, the sense of belonging of someone who says ‘I am a member of this company’ would be stronger. To borrow your terminology, the distance and depth of the interpersonal relations are completely different. It’s
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