And suppose that the federal government of the US wants to put people in cages for trying to find a better life for their children? Tragic things can happen in any community.

My point: is the US a community in as many meaningful ways as compared to say a place-based group of people that have problems particular to their social, environmental, and historical contexts?

Who is more of a community: Southern Appalachia or North America? St. Marys, Kansas or the United States?

Would you expect a person to prioritize providing assistance to their neighbor or fellow member of their church congregation or for them to provide assistance to somebody they don't know 500 miles away?

It's easy to love humanity; it's incredibly difficult to love one's neighbor. It's even easier to talk societally and then do nothing communally or locally.

It seems the bigger in scale something is, the further we move away from a sense of embodiment. When we move away from place toward a large-scale sense of society, we become more abstract—one thing you have expressed is wrong with some of PE and traditional views on schooling is this loss of embodiment in the community.