April 1, 2020

The Greater Good: COVID Edition

We have reached peak kek.  I was going to write about what a bad idea this is, and how it could end up over reaching, but I don’t actually need to paraphrase the author. It’s apparently a feature, not a bug.


 Such an approach—one might call it “common-good constitutionalism”—should be based on the principles that government helps direct persons, associations, and society generally toward the common good, and that strong rule in the interest of attaining the common good is entirely legitimate. In this time of global pandemic, the need for such an approach is all the greater, as it has become clear that a just governing order must have ample power to cope with large-scale crises of public health and well-being—reading “health” in many senses, not only literal and physical but also metaphorical and social.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/common-good-constitutionalism/609037/

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