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Yes, it's a great temptation for Christians because private property is a gift from God, so we assume we deserve to have sole control over it. Why else would He have given it to us?

Just as we can slide into anarchic thinking because, if everyone behaved perfectly, we would need no state.

Both deny the existence of an imperfect community that can require something from us. Communal obligations.

People as unrelated nodes,
floating about without contact,
each replete within itself,
only adjudicating when they accidentally bump into each other.

It's very Rural American because they have so much empty land.