Quote Originally Posted by lordblazer
"Don't think of what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country."-(forgot who said that)
What is a country? Is it the government? Is it one big intangible entity above everybody? Is it the land? Is it a collection of individuals?

What is good for the country? In what ways? Politically, aesthetically, ecologically, technologically, economically? Who decides?

Basically, it ends up being whatever people(what people? A "general consensus," i.e., the "average") feel, because there's no objective definitions.

Nothing is good for the "country." The "common good" is the good of the individual person, and the interests of the individual person begin and end at freedom and a right to live their own life. No other good has a rational basis for existence.