The Community and the Individual Need Each Other Times have certainly changed many things. Since the turn of this century, the trend of ignoring the moral voice has grown through popular culture and diminishing family values among a multitude of other social issues. Because people tend to dictate their lives based upon societies’ values-- rather than their own guiding moral voice-- they are more cynical, distant, and primarily interested with themselves. Amitai Etzioni points out …showed first 75 words of 1033 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1033 total…or communal, not an individual, achievement”(Walzer 532). Works Cited Etzioni, Amatai “Morality as a Community Affair” Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader for Writers. 4th ed. Mary Lynch Kelly, William J. Kennedy, and Hadley M. Smith. Upper Saddle, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999. 514-521. Walzer, Michael “Multiculturalism and Individualism” Writing in the Disciplines: A Reader for Writers. 4th ed. Mary Lynch Kelly, William J. Kennedy, and Hadley M. Smith. Upper Saddle, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999. 528-538. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**