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The Greater Good Is Not Your Good
When government wants something you have — your wealth, your land, your labor, your liberty — someone reaches for this phrase.
The greater good.
The left uses it. The right uses it.
It has synonyms. Common good. Shared sacrifice. For the benefit of society. In the name of public welfare. National interest. Public interest. Stakeholder value.
You rarely hear these terms used in the same paragraph as liberty or freedom.
Although there is one synonym of sorts that is used near the term freedom. Patriotic duty has been used to support military conscription and in marketing war bonds. We've been told it is our patriotic duty to pay taxes. To buy American made products. To go out and spend money. During Covid our patriotic duty involved getting vaccinated and limiting our use of toilet paper.