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Definitions of community as " organisms inhabiting a common environment and interacting with one another ," while scientifically accurate, do not convey the richness, diversity and complexity of human communities.

Their classification, likewise is almost never precise.

Untidy as it may be, community is vital for humans.

M. Scott Peck expresses this in the following way: " There can be no vulnerability without risk ; there can be no community without vulnerability ; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.