Morality in the Western tradition has always depended on the idea of individual responsibility or accountability but has been collectively established. In the strictest sense, individual morality in isolation is meaningless. An individual is moral only in the extent to which he or she conforms to prevailing community standards. Communities need to endorse certain social virtues and basic values, and community responses to those who disregard shared values should be appropriate. The disinclination to lay moral claims undermines the routine social functioning of morality. Further, to object to the moral voice of the community and to the moral encouragement it provides is to oppose the social glue that holds the moral order together.