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(From:Ayn Rand ---Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal) |
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"The common good" (or "the public interest") is an undefined and undefinable concept |
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There is no such entity as "the tribe" or "the public" |
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The tribe (or the public or society) is only a number of individual men |
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Nothing can be good for the tribe as such |
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"Good" and "value" pertain only to a living organism |
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To an individual living organism |
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Not to a disembodied aggregate of relationships |
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When "the common good" of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members |
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It means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others |
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With those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals |
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What makes the victims accept this and permit a society to perpetrate a moral atrocity of that kind |
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The answer lies in philosophy — in philosophical theories on the nature of moral values |
