You mean like, say, the
Amish?
Again, your view of historical communities as some kind of utopia are a romanticized myth. I doubt anything larger than a handful of people could ever function like that and even then it was likely rare. The rich and the clergy got away with basically anything, rape victims were blamed for their victimization, drunkards could beat their wives and children as much as they wanted and all of this went on silently ignored because of the "community". If anything DID finally get to be too much to ignore... well they were at the mercy of the mob.