collective welfare
Society's common good
Collective welfare is the well-being of a group considered as a whole rather than its individual members separately.
The term appears in discussions of policy, ethics, and economics where decisions affect communities, nations, or society at large: The tax was justified on grounds of collective welfare.
It often stands in tension with individual rights or freedoms: How much should personal liberty yield to collective welfare?
- common goodBenefit shared by all
- public goodNon-excludable shared benefit
- solidarityUnity among allies
- social contractAgreement exchanging freedom for order
- communityCollective of connected people
public interest · mutual aid · rising tide · commonwealth · togetherness · cooperation · common cause · safety net · shared burden · civic duty · belonging · neighbors · compassion · public health · equality · fairness · uplift · care
collective welfareegoism
Doctrine of self-motivation
selfishness · rugged individualism · every man for himself · individualism · self-centeredness
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