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I think you two commenters have both expressed the opposing ideas at the core of so much of the political/worldview divide of the world today.

Position 1: a human is an entity distinct from their family.

Position 2: a family is an entity that exists across generations, and no individual in the family can be abstracted from it.

I don’t think you two, or anyone else, is ever really going to suddenly change their mind on this point. It’s at the foundation of the irreconcilable divide between leftism and conservatism.

Ultimately, since we have plenty of evidence to show that people will just shout past each other when they hit this ideological sticking point, I think a better approach would be to individually answer the question: “Which is a better model for predicting the world?”