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It
is the current politicians’ song across the iron curtains whose tunes are
deafening the servile ears of the single-directed people in communist China and
aggressive Russia.
From the pompous
Élysée which existed as a result of the mean Palazzo del Quirinale to the frustrated
Lady Liberty, not forgetting the aimless tune-dancers in Africa, politicians
play “Common Good” chillily smiling.
Normally, it is
the common man who is supposed to demand the politicians to work for the common
good, forcing the self-exalted corps d'elite to consider the interests of the man
in the street.
This was the concept at the time of the Greek philosopher Plato when it was conceived and in the same way, Jean-Jacques Rousseau demanded the egoistic Roman Catholic French politicians to care for the common man through the common good.
To be very
precise, the place of the concept of the common good should be among the common men
just like the place of the English Common law is among the common man, not
among those who make statutes.
What it means
when leaders claim to work for the common good
This principle
of “Common good” in the political world calls for putting the interest of
society before individual interests.
This kind of “common
good” is not common to everyone and it undermines the
sacredness of individual lives that are consequently sacrificed on the evil
altar of the politician’s common good.
For the sake of
the common good, politicians can choose to support the young in society at the
expense of the old who may not still be ‘useful’ in a society that they build.
When governments
claim to be enforcing something for the common good, they assume legitimacy to
trample on individuals which is ironic because individuals are the greatest assets
society has, individuals are the fibres that make society.
Society
interests are supposed to be the collectiveness of individual interest and the right
way to support society is to support individual rights in the society.
Practically, society
is a mere concept whose only tangible part is an individual whom society depends
on, and the state is obliged to defend individuals in order to uphold the existence of a society.
Where there are
no individual rights, there is no independence even of the whole society.
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Common good, an
enemy of the people
Before we come
to the failures, we need to first understand that the politics of the world are
influenced by the religious beliefs of the people but the world is not willing
to tell so.
You like it or not,
all past empires were influenced by religions in styles and actions and there
is no doubt that even today, the world’s political atmosphere is fully
influenced by religions.
An example is
that for the last 500 years, the world (not all countries but all countries
that were civilised by the 1500s when the Reformation began) has enjoyed Republicanism and human rights.
These countries may not be
perfect but the important thing is that they and their colonies at least measure
their leaders on the human rights yardstick.
In the 1500s, the
Roman Catholic Church that influenced political concepts was weakened by the
rise of the Reformation in Europe.
It should be
clear that the Roman Catholic Church has always advocated for the “common good”,
a concept that does not entertain the common man’s influence of the status quo.
The Roman
Catholic Churchmen in cassocks burnt alive thousands and thousands of English
people for reciting Bible verses in the 1600s when reformation was still too young to topple
the "common good" to usher in individual liberty of conscience.
The English so much resented the “common good” philosophy of the Roman Catholic because they already had their common law system that established the common court’s decision to influence the dispensation of justice.
The statutes from authorities who were influenced by
Roman Catholic dogmas of “common good” under the civil law system lost popularity among the English which gave rise to more Protestants until the Roman Catholic Church lost the grip over the English and much of Europe in what is called the Reformation.
Remember, the
word catholic means “universal” and “common good” may simply mean “universal
good” but the problem is that this “universal good” is determined by the universal
leaders.
There’s not a
speech or counsel made by Pope or any other man in cassocks that does not call
world leaders to consider “common good”.
The world
politicians are in bed with the "common good" concept by the Roman Catholic Church because they are not common men to suffer
its consequences.
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