The common good

[Robert_Sock]

Our social and economic institutions must eventually cater to the common good of the people. It’s the underdeveloped morality in our society that is preventing these, and other, humanitarian changes from taking place. If it’s ever given to a true, unadulterated vote, the majority of voters in a given society would favor social and economic institutions that cater to the common good of the people.

 

[Barbkw]

…majority of voters in a given society would favor social and economic institutions that cater to the common good of the people.

Big government, more taxation, the nanny state, people relying on taxpayer assistance …

 

[Robert_Sock]

Big government, more taxation, the nanny state, people relying on taxpayer assistance …

The common good may not include supporting those who refuse to work. Nor does it necessarily mean big government and more taxation.

 

[Michael19682]

The common good may not include supporting those who refuse to work. Nor does it necessarily mean big government and more taxation.

The idea that the evolution of the human species would favor those people whose expression of survival fitness is singularly focused on the acquisition of material wealth is a great explanation for why the ratio of Americans to Non-Americans in this world is rising everyday as the poor and hungry continue to be fruitful and multiply. This dilemma is an enigma. But one thing is for sure: as the poor establish their own power base in material wealth, they will likely follow the same route of their predecessors, i.e. dwindling numbers and passing along the anti-christian spirit of love of money to the next generation of nouveau riche.

 

[Calgar]

Our social and economic institutions must eventually cater to the common good of the people. It’s the underdeveloped morality in our society that is preventing these, and other, humanitarian changes from taking place. If it’s ever given to a true, unadulterated vote, the majority of voters in a given society would favor social and economic institutions that cater to the common good of the people.

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

 

[Fr_of_Jazz]

Our social and economic institutions must eventually cater to the common good of the people. It’s the underdeveloped morality in our society that is preventing these, and other, humanitarian changes from taking place. If it’s ever given to a true, unadulterated vote, the majority of voters in a given society would favor social and economic institutions that cater to the common good of the people.

The common good is one of the 4 permanent principles of Catholic social teaching.

164. The principle of the common good, to which every aspect of social life must be related if it is to attain its fullest meaning, stems from the dignity, unity and equality of all people. According to its primary and broadly accepted sense, the common good indicates “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.” (JP II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 42)
The common good does not consist in the simple sum of the particular goods of each subject of a social entity. Belonging to everyone and to each person, it is and remains “common,” because it is indivisible and because only together is it possible to attain it, increase it and safeguard its effectiveness, with regard also to the future. Just as the moral actions of an individual are accomplished in doing what is good, so too the actions of a society attain their full stature when they bring about the common good. The common good, in fact, can be understood as the social and community dimension of the moral good.
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, 2004] italics in original

That original sin prevents its growth is only too evident. The Church’s social teaching taken as a whole would be the cure.