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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Father Terrence who wrote (27792)1/9/1999 6:39:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
FT,

That is why the concept of basic individual rights was such a quantum leap forward for all Mankind. It set the individual above the group.

Arrant nonsense. Your right to detonate a bomb is superceded by the right of the public not to be blown up. Your right to dump chemicals in your backyard is superceded by the public's right to tap clean groundwater for their personal use.

Your denial of collective good is based on a semantic quibble. When a group decides that their individual interests overlap, and that a given goal is good for them, I call that collective good. You call it an amalgam of individual goods. What we call it is irrelevant. It exists.

Have you ever lived in a community? How would you define a community?

Steve
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