greater good

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   The benefit of the public, of more people than a singular person or a small amount of…

   The benefit of the public, of more people than a singular person or a small amount of people (especially if it requires some expense or sacrifice).

   • Cutting pensions is for the greater good of all citizens.
   • Moral powers therefore, and their improvements, must be the chief object of that infinitely good being's care and concern, whole scope in creating is the greater good of the whole.
   • They are perfectly satisfied with the greater good for which they sacrifice the less good.

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