What is more Important: Individual or Community?  

The community is very critical to understand and has many factors like unification and rapport. Community helps society because it creates results, provides security, and reveals commitment. Communities are part of everyday life and have positive and antagonistic effects on its members. This shows how the community affects the individual. The collective community is more important in society overall than the individual because the community deteriorates the strength of capitalism.

Capitalism at its best incorporates people functioning for other people. It is ambivalence and self-loathing that leads to beliefs found in people who promote 'individualism.” Economic liberty has absolutely nothing to do with personal liberty. The limitation of personal liberty exists to manage personal liberty, lest it grows out of control. The community involves people hurting others in order to act solely based on their personal needs and passions. The community often endorses selfishness, cupidity, uncleanliness, and xenophobia.

In the article “What, of this Goldfish, Would You Wish?” By Etgar Keret it says “In the first neighborhood he went to, the kindly folk that took part generally requested the foreseeable things: health, money, bigger apartments, either to shave off a couple of years or a couple of pounds” which means without the help of his Community he wouldn't have made the social commentary, therefore, having a good connection with the Community can help you in the long run. Some people that believe in the Individual might think Communitarianism encourages the common good at the expense of individual rights in some to most cases. Like if you look at historical happenings , for example Nazi Germany and the Global War on Terrorism (The War on Terror), individual liberties was breach upon in the name of the 'greater good'. Another example is the story called “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant,' is about a fourteen-year boy that inquired a sixteen-year-old girl called, Sheila Mant, out on a date on his Canoe. It turns out that she hates fishing the reason why we know this is she says “I think fishing is dumb,” she said, making a face. “I mean, it’s boring and all Definitely dumb”. The boy loves fishing the reason we know that is because he says “I never went anywhere that summer without a fishing rod” this shows how much dedication he has for fishing and he wanna to change for the girl because he said “I would have given anything not to appear dumb in Sheila’s severe and unforgiving eyes.”

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