Mark M. ztech.com> wrote:

No, but as Aristotle said, an educated man can entertain an idea without
believeing in it; the same goes for the "commong good" as it goes for
Snoopy and The Buddy Birds.

The problem with this mythological concept is that its proponents never
bother to accurately define it, delineate it, enumerate how good the
common good is, and who it is good for, etc. When challenged to
specificy what this "common good" exactly is, it usually goes straight
from appearently reasoned debate to screaming and mudslinging, and lots
of accusations of egoism, anti-social mindset, indifference to suffering
of others, etc and blah-blah-blah ad nauseam of the poor fool who had
the indecency to challenge this exalted idea.

Furthermore, it is used to excuse senseless expansion of scope and
powers of government, even for things that only a madman would claim to
be "good", much less a "common good".