Now that’s a conservative phases if I ever heard one: “for the public good.” Do you realize how much and what has been done by those shouting words like that? Maybe we can trains, yeah lots of boxcars and load them up and then.....
I don’t abandon terms because the left abuses them, but you may.
Are you familiar with the term, the general welfare?
It’s an ancient, and perfectly valid concept.
There are times, like war and disaster, where public safety trumpet individual and property rights.