Your example does illustrate the point, but is problematic for other reasons. (1) The penal statutes of a territory, combined with the police power, force other men to treat him with dignity. (2) Men who are truly bonded in real community voluntarily respect one another by force of love. (3) Although I dream of a future in which individuals are sovereign, anyone who claims to be sovereign today is delusional.
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To your second point, everything melts against the force of love but is good will love? I'm inclined to say yes, but I wouldn't want all my neighbors confessing their love of me.
Here's my definition of love: