Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The Common Good
After reading the article, I felt that reaching the common goal would be unrealistic. Everyone has different opinions, so to reach it worldwide would be almost impossible given that everyone in the world has conflicting view points. The idea that something would benefit everyone sounds like it would be a good idea. However, since everyone is different and has such different opinions there is no way for something to benefit every single person. When the article mentioned the idea of affordable health care, it already showed that there would be controversy and, therefore, would not benefit everyone. The idea would not work because there are such conflicting viewpoints regarding health care systems that any plan set up would not please everyone. Also, everyone is competitive towards one another and always has their best interests at heart. So, even though people may really want to help others, chances are they would be more likely to want plans that would benefit themselves. Therefore, the common good is an idea that sounds great, but in reality would probably not work.
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You make a good point. No matter what, we as people will always be different from one another in our opinions, our likes, our dislikes, and our goals. It does seem unrealistic to work with the intentions of pleasing everyone.
ReplyDeleteI think the idea of the common good is less about pleasing everyone than it is about doing things that benefit everyone, if that makes any sense. Things like renewable resources, lower taxes, and better education systems are advantageous to an entire society. I think the common good is about boosting up an entire group of people, whether it be a nation or just a community, rather than individuals.
I am with you 100% on the fact that it is impossible to have all the people think in the same way, of course not including circumstances of brain washing. So many people have different opinions, background, culture, moral, ethics,and beliefs. Therefore the concept of common good is just a mere dream.
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