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To: neolib who wrote (7816)	12/21/2005 4:13:46 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 542014

I thought it was the worst of all dirty words for her, yet both you and kholt seems to accept the notion without problems. It was. "Common good" is another of those loaded terms. It is associated with collectivism because collectivists design their society around the common good. I don't really accept the notion and I doubt that Tim does either, not in that context, not at all. That's common good by the front door. I believe, though, that, if left to their libertarian devices, communities will achieve common good through the back door. I wrote earlier about achieving a culture by result rather than by design. The net result of civilized people making individual decisions in their "enlightened best interests" will produce common good. Of course, you have to take that on trust in the libertarian paradigm. You don't get to try to control it as in collectivist, command-and-control systems. Freedom can be scary. Karen

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