Individual responsibility is a conscious and voluntary obedience to all procedures the group adopts that represent group attempts to solve group problems. Groups may also have a collective responsibility where the same responsibility falls to each individual in the group. Alternatively, the collectivization of moral responsibilities might actually lead to the individualization of moral responsibility. Democracy is not solely a political organization, but rather a social relationship, a conscious striving on the part of each member for the advancement of the common welfare. It is essentially a mode of associated living, for it exists in the lives and the living of its members and not apart or above them in some form of political organization.
Democracy is a cooperative society rather than a competitive one.
It is a society in which individuals are cooperating with one another rather than competing against one another. It is a society in which individuals are striving to aid rather than to exploit. Individual accountability means an account of an action or activity concerned with discussing the action, whether it works or not. The individual counterpart of group consciousness is a strong feeling of membership in the group. Membership implies that the individual recognizes his interdependence with his associates and his dependency upon their joint efforts for the realization of their common welfare.