ISLAND OR CONTINENT?

For weeks, a title of an old documentary series has been running through my mind. "HOW THEN SHALL WE LIVE?" narrated by Francis Schaeffer, a prominent Evangelical theologian of the last half of the 20th Century. I cannot remember much about the theme of the series, but the question has stuck with me.
I've been rereading some writings which I haven't looked at since my college days. One of these, I think, has some bearing on the question of the day.

"Meditation XVII" by John Donne (1572-1631)

No man is an island entire of itself: every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main:
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were;any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

So, the way I see it is that every person must answer the question, 'how then shall I live?' by deciding if he/she will live as an island or part of the larger community.