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To: Father Terrence who wrote (27881)	1/10/1999 6:58:00 PM
From: Andrew H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

>> There may be a good which impacts favorably on a large number of individuals, but there is no "collective good".<< That would be a definition of a collective or common good. >>That is a fallacy and an artificial construct.<< All such human constructs as individual, collective, good and evil are artificial in the sense that they describe reality and are not themselves the reality they describe. >>It is also a very dangerous belief that can destroy individual freedoms in the name of an amorphous "common good".<< Yes, that is a danger. As is the denial that there is such a thing as the common good. The United States was founded on both the good of the Union and the rights of the individual. That is why they call it "the United States. At least that's the way I see it.