Today, people are getting greedy and selfish. Some people argue that we should go back to the old days, and show respect for the family and community, so that we can make the world a better place to live in. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Perhaps the tendency inward individualism has never been clearer than it is now. People seem to become increasingly self-centred and snobbish. I side with those people who believe that reviving the bygone concept of family and

community

is important The rise of egoism has profound consequences

on

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for

the unity of a family, causing the breakdown of family solidarity. Every component of a family can be detrimentally affected, if one member is egoistic. "Blood is thicker than water", as an old saying indicates. People will turn to family

first

if they are confronted with problems. People used to live in a

community

in which they lived according to an ethos of sharing and caring, but nowadays, members of a family tend to work separately for their individual benefits. They are ignorant of the fact that families not only give them tangible benefits (e.g., financial aid), but

also

otter emotional support from which they obtain strength, comfort and confidence. Egoism

also

causes people to ignore the good of the

community

, a problem

that is

disruptive to the

community

. So greedy are some people that they can go so far to engage in illegal activities.

For example

, some merchants earn handsome incomes from producing disqualified products and cajoling people to buy what they do not actually need. They, meanwhile, refuse to plough back any fraction of their income to the

community

. Individuals become indifferent to others' interests and the relationship between individual members tends to become superficial, transient and ad hoc. People remain as onlookers when neighbours ask for help, and social solidarity has been dismantled in front of the overwhelming egoism. As shown above, greedy and egoism

are set

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is set

to bring both the society and the families in grave trouble. The best way to prevent people from

further

loss in social solidarity and

community

unity is to reconstruct the concept of family and

community

, show esteem to one's family, friends, neighbours and even acquaintances, and recover a sense of

community

and social cohesion.