From: Andrew Clough (aclough@mit.edu)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 13:33:18 MDT
At 10:59 AM 5/8/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 06:45, Brian D Williams wrote:
> >
> > "The common good must always come first, whether we like it or not"
>
>
>Few people have a problem with the statement in itself. The problem is
>in deciding what "the common good" is and how one can achieve it.
>
>-James Rogers
> jamesr@best.com
Agreed. First there is the problem of how our actions affect others, and
then there is whether the "common good" is the greatest sum good or
greatest median good or something else.
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