Morality As A Community Affair
As Americans we hone a set of individual, community, and national morals that have a
great affect on the world. Morals can be described as our conscience?s, our values, and our
beliefs. How we decipher what is right or wrong also comes from our morals. Our feelings on a
subject and our behaviors are actions of our values. Not only do our morals affect us as
individuals but Amitai Etzioni tells us that our morals affect our communities as well. In
Etzioni?s book Morality as a Community Affair he tells us that we belong to many communities
which can be defined as a place where we interact with other people like at work, our
neighborhood, or even bigger our nation. With in these communities we belong to , we have
moral voices that set the basic rules we live by.
Etzioni believes American communities today have a weak moral voice due to a fear of
speaking up. He tells us that this is a problem that we must correct. Etzioni says that as an
individual our conscience alone is not enough to change this weak moral voice, so we much get
help and support from people with in our communities. It takes both
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