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Can't a group of citizens can have interests beyond their personal prosperity?
by harryh 14y ago
Can't a group of citizens can have interests beyond their personal prosperity?
- rayiner 14y agoSure, and if that was the expressed view of the majority of the people, that's certainly the path government should follow. The way I look at it is that some policies are intrinsically justifiable and some are not. If a policy is claimed to benefit the nation, it is intrinsically justifiable even if the people are not necessarily totally convinced of its utility (this is the prerogative of a government within a republican democratic system). If a policy is not claimed to benefit the nation, but to benefit other people, it must be justified on the basis of the fact that the people as a whole choose to be generous in that instance.