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First and foremost, we need to remember that rights come with responsibilities. Most importantly, we have a responsibility to give back to the society that guarantees and protects our rights, and has given us a standard of living that most people of past centuries couldn't even have dreamed of. We do that by obeying the law, by repaying our debts, by treating others with respect and humanity, by helping our communities to flourish and grow in strength and trust, and most of all, by creating, nurturing, and teaching the next generation to take up the same mantle.
We need to also remember that this is an imperfect world full of imperfect people, and it will always be that way. Utopian ideals sound appealing but they cannot be achieved, and when this truth is exposed we often fail to understand that it is due to the nature of this world and of humanity itself, rather than the wicked designs of others. This way of thinking is what led people like Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and the movements they led to kill millions of people directly, and millions more by starvation. They believed if they killed enough of the "wreckers", they could bring about their utopian vision. We haven't learned this lesson as a society though.
We also need to recognize the foundational importance of the family. The family is the foundational unit of society. Not the individual, the family. Individuals isolate themselves, draw away from society. They do not create communities and they do not maintain and pass on our culture. Families keep these things alive, and provide a structure of support and nurturing for all of us.