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Crucial as it is to insist that the individual is always individual-in-community -- indeed, the threefold community of self, others, and the whole -- it is no less crucial to hold that "[g]roups are real and important only because their members are. All the happiness and instrinsic intrinsic value in the cosmos is in singulars, for they alone enjoy and suffer and find or fail to find satisfaction. One would be as important as billions if no one objectified the billions in a single experience" (CSPM: 111).

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