Members of the Gemeinschaft have an innate consciousness of their own responsibility
and reflect this responsibility as “moral obligation, moral imperative, or prohibition, and a
righteous aversion to the consequences of the incorrect, illegal, and unlawful” (Tönnies, 1955, p.
9). For each member of the Gemeinschaft the continuance of the traditions, customs, and way of
life is understood as a primary obligation and, hence, a reflection of Tönnies' “natural will.”