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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: neolib who wrote (7816)12/21/2005 5:07:22 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (2) of 542034
 
” All the arrows of restriction keep coming back to the common good,…”

A regard for common goodness is not restrictive, it is restorative. Woven into the paradoxes and ironies of our circumstance is awareness that any conduct based solely on the stratagem of material gain is endowed with benefits, which are balanced by, and occasionally outweighed by corruption.

The principle of well being is a strand of purpose woven through the fabric of humanity. It exists with regard to interpreting the past. It exists with regard to attitudes and behavior in the present. It exists with regard to the promise of a future. If one establishes a view of life that holistically associates, a “regard for the well being of all,” as purposeful, one can define the value, direction, and attitudes that motivate behavior in this purposeful realm of well-being. The principle nature of regard for the well being provokes attitudes and action in support of well-being and attitudes and action in opposition to that which is harmful.

The common good is a mutual regard for the well being of self and others. It is not a rigid dictate handed down by a social authority to control you. It is a notion that you control, by your free will, the choice of a beneficent path over the corrupt.
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