The communitarian movement is a movement that advocates a balance between individual rights and public responsibilities. They have four basic proposals that they advocate to achieve this balance. The first is to stop the expanding “culture of rights” by which people put there own interest ahead of social involvement. I think first off, I get involved in society sometimes. But to have some one else decide when I should put the public interest ahead of …showed first 75 words of 868 total…

…showed last 75 words of 868 total…just strikes me as very un-American. I also don’t buy the fact that there is a need for any such movement. I would also like to say that whether any laws based on these ideas would have any effect would have a lot to do with what the potential punishment for breaking them would be. Since no such information is available at this time I can’t comment on the usefulness of such laws.