@230738d5 I don’t know.  It sounds like you’re insisting that aspirational precepts and goals be bound to specific use cases.  I think the “common good” is more inate than that. Sure, it’s fluid, but I think it should be.  Scoundrels will always distort the meaning of any phrase to suit their ends.  Most people still assume it merely refers to putting the collective needs above the individual’s when making policies or decisions likely or sure to affect both. 

 @40cd5708 

Aspirations are baseline.

As you say, they are fluid & ambiguous by definition.

The modern problem is that “aspiration” is now corporate speak for “pretty stories that people like to hear, but we dont really know what they mean”

To call an idea or project “aspirational” in a meeting is a kiss of death for that idea or project.

Aspirations are no substitute for principles. 

 @230738d5 Well, then it’s a good thing I won’t be in any meetings with you, eh?  I’m moving on from this conversation :)