Common Good Definition: the common good indicates “the sum total …of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfilment more fully and more easily”.
The Star Trek reference took the quote a step further than the sacrifice in the classic novel. It aspired towards the Common Good where both the few and the many sacrifice and are served.
Back to the strip it does a great job pointing out where Congress-Man has lost sight of the Common Good surving favored citizens. No preferential treatment of the poor here.
If we can create a simple spectrum of with left and right, progressive and conservative the current political setting across the spectrum has lost sight of the Common Good.
Common Good Definition: “the common good indicates “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfilment more fully and more easily”.[”
This is not simply socialism or capitalisim. This is what makes America great the assumption that anybody can do or be anything. Pragmatically it means policies and programs that provide opportunities for everyone to reach their fullfillment / potential. We have seen this in civil rights acts, in economic and social programs such as the “New Deal” and “Great Society”.
Americans historically have looked at ourselves with pride that we are different than the elitism/classism of Europe of the previous centuries.
A Tale of Two Cities / A Tale of Two Worlds.
Common Good Definition: the common good indicates “the sum total …of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfilment more fully and more easily”.
The Star Trek reference took the quote a step further than the sacrifice in the classic novel. It aspired towards the Common Good where both the few and the many sacrifice and are served.
Back to the strip it does a great job pointing out where Congress-Man has lost sight of the Common Good surving favored citizens. No preferential treatment of the poor here.