[Mrs. Don-o]

"Common Good" is a term stolen and misused by Socialists, just like "Compassion," "Human Rights," "Love," etc. Just because they appropriated and perverted these phrases, that doesn't mean the real values aren't recoverable.

The Comon Good is the basis of every legitimate government, without exclusing privatte initiative and responsibility, and without, of course, implying Communism.

[Wuli]

“The Comon Good is the basis of every legitimate government, without exclusing privatte initiative and responsibility, and without, of course, implying Communism.”

it is the responsibility of government to provide a framework in which the people, in their free associations, can work, together and independently - they the people - for the common good

it is not the purview of government to rob from the people to enforce a politically mandated orthodoxy of what the sum expression of the common good is

that theft is not minimized by a 51% majority