Should governments protect individuals or communities? Can they protect both?

[laly520]

Should governments focus on protecting individual rights or community welfare? Can they successfully balance and protect both, or do these goals sometimes clash?

[Still-alive]

This MLK jr quote sums it up best:

justice should protect at the individual level and when you have that it should protect society as a whole and create a just community.

[Still-alive]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjlX7esSFII

[NamerOfStars]

Fundamentally? Individuals. Communities are far better able to protect themselves.

[Amur8711]

Government purpose is to protect its people as a whole, they realistically can't protect individuals.

[Agape93]

No idea because they don't do either.

[Kingofkings1992]

They can protect neither.

[jahaims]

Freedom>safety