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Unmasking (and) the Common Good 0

At AL.com, Kyle Whitmire considers Alabama’s reluctance to order/request/ask persons to wear masks in the face of the current pandemic. In doing so, he explains the concept of the common good in simple terms:

Government exists to balance individual freedom with the collective good. There are times when government must step in and make people do things they don’t want to do. That’s why we have traffic laws, building codes and zoning ordinances.

Follow the link for the rest of his piece, in which he tries to figure out why many no longer seem to care about the common good in these viral times.

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