| | Bill, while you are technically correct, there is a difference between the good of a given individual, and the average good for a group that is a subset of all the individuals in a society, and which special interest subset is seeking to use government coercion to advance their average good at the expanse of those individuals outside their group, or even at the expanse of many individuals who may have been coerced by the government into joining the special interest group.
But that is an unwieldy way of putting it, and thus the less accurate but more concise phrase "the good of the individual and the good of the group".
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Forgive my reductionism, but there will always be tension between those who believe that the good of the individual is primary and that the good of the group must be subordinated to it, and those who believe that the good of the group is primary and that the good of the individual must be subordinated to it.
