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 my own is unacceptable. This country is made up of all kinds of people. Some people don't want to be involved in society. There are survivalist and hermits that just want to be left alone. And there is me, some one that wants to be left alone sometimes and included other times. If you ask me if people have a right to live in voluntary exile completely or partly from the rest of society then I say, "yes we do". By the definition of culture, this is a culture. More importantly this is American Culture. So why you may be advocating change in the interest of making things better, you are advocating a change in American culture. The fact that there is resistance to such a change proves that perhaps we have not drifted as far apart as the story about kitty Genovese might suggest. I would like to mention that I am not ready to condemn an entire way of life based on one sad story. I would offer another story as a rebuttal to Kitty Genovese's story. This one is placed in Texas. A young teenage girl is in FFA and she has a show cow that wins contest consistently. This girl has a car wreck and the family has to sell her cow at the auction to raise money for the doctor bills. After the cow is auctioned off. The man that buys it gives the money and tells the auctioneer to sell it again. Everyone there takes turns buying the cow and the girl, who by the way has beat most of these locals in competitions with this cow, leaves with more money then she ...