The matter of self-sacrifice.

I try to care. More about the common good. Than about the individual good. But that's a dangerous proposition. Especially in the political realm. Where too often the selfish whims/desires of the individual rank higher than the common good. Of course, some will say that the individual good really is tantamount to the common/collective good. But I don't buy into that theory. Some significant degree of self-sacrifice is necessary, by everyone,  to achieve the common good. Most of us will never be ready to make that sacrifice. --Jim Broede