The Common Good

So here is the deal. We only have a little time on the earth, some less than others. We need something to fulfill that time with whatever we please; at least, that’s what I gather from everyone running around with plans for this and that. Some go to school and become rich; others get rich off of moral decay. Some get rich using moral decay.

My questions are relatively…they’re something I just don’t know what. What are we doing this for? If we don’t know what, why bother anyone with your instructions. Sure it’s easy to question what couldn’t be answered, but I think that’s my point here. When the debates come down to it, what you are arguing when the core question of ‘Why?’ still isn’t being answered. You could say anything in the world and no one could answer that question and be correct except you. To this I learn that that no one has the right answer but you. It’s my worst nightmare, everyone is right.

So you do what you please, now what? The common goal is that everyone wants to do something to get happy. Even those that help someone else out do it for a deeper selfish reason to satisfy a desire to help someone of importance to them. If this wasn’t true we’d be helping everyone and not just close friends or relatives. Some might argue convenience on that one but I still see the bias in one’s personal life from the next.

True integration of culture will only occur when there is no culture to integrate, as cultures naturally clash. We still try for the common ‘good.’ When all we end up doing is hurting another form of life on the same planet. “It’s a vicious cycle” has taken on a new meaning as I consider these arguments.

The common good can be used to get a large group what they want, as they have shared interests due to similar environments and needs. The common good is a mob in its own right, as it has no motivating intentions but to please that group. Trading has created a larger common good to satiate more desires throughout the world. Strangely, this is all done with selfish intentions as little care is ever put into the miniscule pieces of their plan such as a dog of a Northern European country having a few extra things to do or eat because of a larger population and work force from the plant that was put to create cheaper automobiles.

This isn’t an indication that one should care about this sort of thing, only that they can’t. If you can’t grasp every miniscule aspect of a plan and its effect how could you grasp every result that could be “destructive” for something else. This is the common good or the ignored destruction?

Without this proof we can only establish that you did what you did selfishly to create what you really wanted. It had more desirable effects for the common man of your area and maybe those of other areas. You didn’t do it for them, you did it for yourself.