” “The common good before the private good”;
If there is NO private good, there will never be common good, just common suffering.
Every time.
This is what i'm thinking. A lot of people don't consider from where various concepts originate, and they don't realize they are buying into dangerous ideas. They just look at the surface of it, and if it seems good, they think it is applicable to all situations, when in fact, it can yield very bad results.
This Libertarian idea of "If it do no harm, do what you will", is another example. "Harm" is interpreted as meaning instantly and locally, and it makes no provision for dealing with "harm" that occurs at some distance in time or physical proximity.
One's foundational assumptions are important in determining how a society functions, and some ideas are very detrimental to society. Communism/Socialism is one such Idea, as Venezuela is just now figuring out.
So is excessive indulgence of hedonistic urges.