"It is dangerous for a government to promote any morality -- especially the anti-American ideology of sacrifice and service in volunteerism," said Scott McConnell.

Contrary to the claims of the government and school officials who cite service to others as an American ideal, McConnell said, volunteerism is anti-American because:

It substitutes altruism for the Founding Fathers' moral premise of the right of Americans to pursue their own happiness.
 
It rejects individualism, adopting instead the idea that one's life belongs to others, the moral creed that underlies every dictatorship.
 
It promotes service, obedience, and duty as the standard of morality, not virtues such as honesty, productivity, or independence.