ABSTRACT
Some sense of community is important for a society in order for people to agree on common courses of action to deal with problems that can’t be handled on an individual basis through the market. People have to agree on things that are good for all members of the community or the community as a whole, things like clean air and water, for example, or national defense. When individuals bump into each other, or in other words when the interests of individuals clash such that not everyone can do as they please, compromises have to be reached that are going to aff ect these individual interests. There has to be some sense of the common good and a willingness to sacrifi ce individual interests for the good of the whole community for common problems to be addressed.
