> "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Public good is a technical term with a clear
meaning.
> Right but not relevant, and dangerous to the polity.
<snip>
> But this list is more likely to use the concepts of
> the preamble to the US Constitution:
> ... provide for the common defense, promote the
> general welfare ...
>
> In that document, the notions of the `common
> defense' and the `general
> welfare' provide a definition of what is good for
> the public.
> (Justice, tranquility, and liberty are also listed.)
>
> When gasoline and other fuels are required for cars
> used for
> evacuation and for hospitals, then a lack of
> gasoline and other fuels
> becomes a danger that an official sworn to `provide
> for the common
> defense' and `promote the general welfare' should
> handle.
>
> It is harmful to disguise this. The danger is that
> less will be done
> about officials who fail to `provide for the common
> defense' than should be done.
<snip>
> A job of people in government is to protect,
> preserve, prepare, and
> provide food, water, shelter, fuel and more. That
> action is a public
> good and those supplies are good for the relevant
> public.
Dang it, Bob, you took my perfectly good intuitive,
emotional response and showed why it is in fact a
rational and reasoned position...have you no sense of
macho decency?!?
But seriously, as usual, very good points. :)
Debbi
Good Gut, But Some Expressive Aphasia Maru
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