Rationality, Common Good, and Societal Impact

Rational actions can become expedient to the actor itself while marginalizing the common good. The common good is those goods that improve the welfare of an entire community. The standard chosen can be faulty as it repudiates those goods beyond the community that was chosen. For these reasons, the community evaluated will be the people of the United States of America and the nations directly or indirectly affected by the implementation of an action or societal structure. Irrational thoughts can result in only irrational actions, which could assist or trivialize the community. Some have reasoned that religion cannot bring welfare to society while others have reasoned that government cannot fulfill the common good standard. Individuals, orchestrating both rational and irrational actions, can and do disagree on the characteristics of the governing body and/or faith that would bring the common good to all individuals; furthermore, people disagree on how the defining attributes of the common good appear from the implementation of these actions. They also disagree on the policies and laws that conduct the common good.

In order to engage in the process from thoughts to actual physical behavior, I consider first my necessities and well-being. A few of these things include

When intuition, faith, and emotions run contrary to facts, science, and reason people typically act out of self-interest; furthermore, some will ignore facts and embrace irrational thoughts to justify poor actions. A moral basis from faith and intuition create a strong conscience which helps them guide their behaviors and reasoning. A strong conscience for each individual defines what is good and reasoning defines the commonality. Behaviors that implement the common good are mutually inclusive of both irrational and rational