Austendo's chapters 4 through 7

I am posting austen's questions because he is on vacation and not exposed to internet.

Chapter 4
Q- Why does our society prefer a slow, broad afvance to our goals over a focusing all of our energies on a single aspect?
A - The movement toward planning tends to separate and delegate authority and responsibility in groups and governments. Today's government is and example. Instead of the entirety of the system focusing on only education, for example, and nothing else, we have set aside a special group focused solely on developing education. The separate judicial, legislative and executive branches delegate and spread the efforts to accomplish many things at once." we all find it difficult to bear to see things left undone which everybody must admit are both desirable and possible"(60).

Chapter 5
Q-Why is the 'common good' not an adequete term to use when trying to organize a society?
A-Saying "we are working towards the commonn good" sounds nice and helpful, but it does not give a specific goal to focus on. "the welfare of the people, like the happiness of a man, depends on a great many things that can be provided in an infinite variety of combinations"(64). Yet all the members of that societymay not have the same ideals that provide for their own personal good. In order to find what would provide for said common good, "every one of our needs [must be] given its rank un an order of values..."(64)

Chapter 6
Q- The Rule of Law is, "that government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed and anounced beforehard"(80). Following this rule, what would the converse of this Law be?
A- If the Rule of Law states that governments have to follow rules made beforehand, then the converso would be ex post facto, to validate actions after they have occured.

Chapter 7
Q- There is no questions that our society could relieve much of the trouble and discord in the world. Yet, why is little or no action taken to solve solvable problems?
A Without a doubt, we could solve many problems in today's society. THe question is, "are we willing to pay the price necessary". "to take only one exapmle: we could, of course, reduce the casualties by automobile accidents to zero if we were willing to bear the cost - if in no other way- by abolishing automobiles. And the same is true of thousands of other instances in which we are constantly risking life and health and all the fine values fo the spirit, of ourselves and of our fellow- men, to further what we at the same time contempltuously describe as our material comfort"(107). We have to be able to sacrifice our own comforts to help better society.