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Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

I belive that there are many selfish thoughts/actions among us, some of us give into it. I am a firm beleiver in karma and I go by the saying " Do to others as you would have them do to you". I think there are times when some people should put their own selfish needs aside and think of others . It is true that you are your own important person but there are many that sacrifice and stirve for others that are important to them. In a way, advancing the comming good can be concidered a personal pursuit, there are many that do the commong good for the personal feeling of accomplishing something for others.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

Both endeavors are better to be part of.But I as an individual I would like to advance the common good in this society to become unpetty with each other,to do things way better than they use to.Everyone in this world knows what they want to be. To be alone pursuing their dreams without the help of others, but some other will help the community to make it safe and better.To teach them what they are capable of,to beleive in themselfs that they can do as the things wealthy people does.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

The ability to do both would be awesome, but since I have to choose I'd rather help others in any way I can. Even a little thing can impact someone's life, like being a friend or helping them with getting their needs to survive life.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

I think common good is better than personal pursuit because its better to help other people. I feel good when i help people because it makes me feel happy that im doing something good in life.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

advancing the common good is better to me because, If i were to pursue my own personal pursuit, it wouldn't be all that good, because most of them would be selfish choices that woulld end up hurting someone else, i dont like hurting people. It would be a much better world if we thought about everyone else well being before we think about our selves.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

Benefiting yourself is always an assessable task but having a chance to better the common good only comes around once in a life time. You have to take into consideration that you can improve the lives or situations of the masses or just yourself. I believe that by advancing the common good you spread the wealth of nobility to others as well as yourself and that is the greatest benefit of all.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

i believe they are diffenrent ways of feeling happy and proud of what you do, i feel happy helping others that doesnt means i help every person in front of me, i try to do what i think is best and good to make somebody happy.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

I fell like advancing the common goods is better than personal pursuit because most people will look out for themselves rather than look out for others. Looking out for yourself before lookin out for others won't do alot of good in the long run. I believe in the what goes around comes around thing so when you do something for other people before you try to please yourself, not only does it help them but something good will also come back to you helping you better yourself.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

I think that focusing on a personal persuit comes first, going to college, having a career, and reaching a position of power. I don't think there really is a day when you will announce to the world that your going to advance the common good, but you can help people here and there, donating a little bit of time, donating a little money, but in the end if your ever in the position of power and have money you could truly advance the common good.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

I volunteer at Irving Cares, and when I do I feel so great that I can help the community. To me when I help advance the common good I am helping myself. When people do something for the good of others it helps them out in the long run. Whether it is a favor in return or anything else. In a personal pursuit you are just helping yourself. If we all just helped ourselves where would our world be? We all depend on others for help at some point. This world should be about others, not just me.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

I think advancing the common good is better, because it will eventually come back to you anyways. If you better the world somehow, it will also help you out in some way. Whether it is money, fame or just karma.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

Well I'm kind of in the middle because i always think that helping people is a good thing and a way that you can get your blessings. But also sometime you have too help yourself be successful and make sure you can survive and provide. So to a certain extent it is good to help others but then its all about you.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

Usually my decision in the end is yes and no,or goes both ways. Today, however it is advancing for the common good. Making a decision to better suit yourself will help you for that moment, but in the long run who will it really help? Whereas, if you make an advancement for the common good you help yourself and other people. If you think about it we all want the world to be a "better place", and if you've noticed personal endeavors have gotten "us" into some not so happy predicaments.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

I think common good is better than personal pursuit because it’s always better to assist other people. When people help each other out its more likely that everything comes out great. You get to become a role model by helping some one that needs your help. Yes personal pursuit is important when you are thinking of going to college. But than you got to think about leaving legacy behind by teaching other what you know. So the learning or society process can advance. So therefore you let others take it to the next level.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

I think advancing the common good would be better in the long run. I mean sure you can worry about yourself, but put it like this, "Your not the most important person in the world". If everyone just thought about just them and not about other people where would we be. Its better to put others first and think about yourself later then to put yourself first.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

There once was a rapper who said he was the people's Champ. When wanting to be successful sometimes you need to worry about the common good because that’s what people want. I believe that advancing the common good is a better endeavor. Because when always thinking about your self and your personal pursuits you tend to become conceited and become an A hole. And an A jerk is a person that’s not liked and when alone and not liked by others becomes lonely.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

I believe its best advancing towards the common good, but it doesn't really exist in this world. Mostly everyone is greedy, selfish, only would care about what they want, and not caring about what others would want. I believe everyone have small feeling towards the common good, but most people think they are important than anyone else in the whole world.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

In my opinion, i think that advancing the common good is better because when helping others, not only is it appreciated by that person or people, but it makes you feel better as well. It doesn't mean that I won't spend time on myself, but if I have the opportunity to help others, I'll do my best to accomplish that.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

Advancing the Common good is a better endeavor than a personal pursuit. For example there are those who want to help others. A personal pursuit however is only for those selfish people who only care about themselves. The common good happens to some from a loan for college, to a charity for an orphanage, a school, etc
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

Everybody has goals and things that they want to accomplish in life. However, a person that helps the community and puts other people in front of themselves will most surely live a better life. If you really think about it, advancing the common good is basically a win-win situation. You get the support of other people, and you can also get recognition for yourself as a reward for your help.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

Well me personally I think advancement of the common good is better. I don't really know how to back this up, I just know its the way i feel about the topic. I guess because I'm not a selfish person at all when it comes to anything. I believe in sharing and helping others out. So if there's something i have to sacrifice personally for the advance of the common good, 9 times out of 10 I'm going to do it.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

Only at Walgreen's do all people use their talents for the common good, but we don't live in Walgreen's, and most people use their talents in greed to further themselves. I think that advancing the common good is better because we need people like that. We need people to rally up others and have benefits for cancer, and we need people to unselfishly go to Africa and help starving children. people who advance the common good don't care what other people think they just want to help, and helping others is what its all about to them. Yeah those people may not be remembered for a long but they have the joy of helping others live their life's.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

This is planet Earth, shared by billions, not just you. If given the opportunity to advance the human race, every person alive should take it; choosing personal gain over advancing the common good is selfish. There's no other way around it. I don't want ot hear "it's human nature to be selfish" or any other lame excuse. The point is we all live together, and if your too greedy and self-centered to care about your surroundings and the individuals around you, your merely taking up space.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

Most people will say that they would prefer to advance the common good, but if you think about it. Even if you are doing something for the common good, you are still doing it for personal pursuit. You are part of the "common" good. Even if you make something better for a town, if you live in that town you are making it better for yourself, thus making your original action of advancing the common good become a personal pursuit. There is no better endeavor, because either way you are helping yourself, although if its for the common good you are also able to help others advance, not necessarily in the same way you do but, in a similar way. If its for a personal pursuit you may not help others, and yes you get the better things, but if your house is nicer or your job is better, you may not be thinking about bettering the education of others. You can better yours by getting a personal tutor but, you may not be able to afford a tutor for your children so why not just better the education system for everyone so that the world can become "a better place."
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

The people that make up this world are selfish, put themselves before all others, and look out for number one. Everyone has a God given talent, and if you are able to find that within and let it flourish you are of the minority. Accomplishing things that better the world bring about a sense of fulfillment and great satisfaction. I think that people should focus their talents into being productive. By doing the very best that you can do for YOU in this world will funnel into assisting the common good. We need to take a look at what we can do for others, not just for ourselves. If everyone pitched in a little, it would be a lot.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

Advancing the common good is much better. From the very first day our parents or our teachers have taught us about team work. The whole point of doing community service is about the common good. We have to help others in order to help our selves.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

Well, I take the perspective of my parents, because of the way they try to make me, my brother, the rest of the family and friends happy. they would spend all of there money and time on others than themselves.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

Advancing the common good is better because like the bible says "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor." For example, football is a team sport they all have to believe in each other and not in their selves because there is no “I in Team”, like the other night in the Super Bowl the Steelers couldn’t score the winning drive in the last 2 minutes with out the lineman blocking for the quarterback, quarterback believing in the lineman, and the receiver believing in the quarterback to make a good pass. So we need each other and depend on each other to be great.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Advancing the Common Good

You might ask: "Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?"I would agree that "Advancing the Common Good" would be better than "Personal Persuit". My reason for choosing "Advancing the Common Good" is because in the History of the United States, people and events have brought our nation to it's current state-of-being. Such an event would be war. In War, there are procedures to protect other people in a critical situation that one choice can lead to more or less people dying or surviving. One such situation would be if the battle ship was hit and water was pouring into the ship. You have two choices. The choice is to seal the hatches that are threats for water to come to the other areas of the ship, or you could save your self and get into the lifeboats with other panicking people and let the ship sink with an unknown amount of lives lost.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

I believe personal persuit. Human nature is for someone to persue things for themselves, not for others.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

While i know that honestly i will spend my life chasing after my own personal goals, i know that it would be better for the world as a whole if i worked towards the common good of all people. My main goal in life is to be happy and even though me being happy is not in the greater good of the rest of the world, I feel as people we need to take care of ourselves before we can worry about others. While the ideal for working towards the greater good is noble, it just isnt for me. I just want to be happy and do what is good for me.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

In the end, there is only one person that you can trust. Your self. So I guess I'm on the side with the " personal pursuiters " We as humans naturally come off as selfish. So there is not a whole lot we can do about that. I would choose myself over anyone in this room, any day. ( no offense) Because this life that I have is all about doing what I want and going where I want to go. I mean, yeah. I'm a helpful person. And i'll help the ones i love whenever I can and however i can. And I don't think that I should need to help anyone. I think that everyone should help their selves. I think that most people are capable of doing so.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

Obviously everybody wants to say that they would help mankind, the world or save the city, but only a small percent of people would actually do this. I honestly would like to help mankind. I would like to save the world, but I'm posting under personal pursuit because I do not know what I would do in one of these situations.Anyway, if people did believe in the advancement of the common good all of the economical cars and factories wouldn't just now be made. These inventions would have come out as soon as the theory of global warming came out.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

I feel like a personal pursuit is better. You can’t help others around you if you can’t help yourself. If your personal pursuit is to make money for the needy or the common good, then it starts with you and your desire to make that money. A personal pursuit isn’t always about money but it can also about happiness, love, and success.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

I think you proved a good point here
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

Honestly, I believe you can't help anybody unless you help yourself first. It would be hypocritical to pass on good to others, if I myself dont' have good to begin with. Although it may sound selfish to persue your happiness before other's happiness, in my mind, it makes more sense.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

I believe personal pursuit is better. If you can't help yourself first, how will you be able to help other people? I believe you must better yourself before you can start changing other people's lives. If people didn't go to college to become doctors and scientists first, we would have never found cures to half the diseases we know of today. If teachers didn't go to college first, we wouldn't be taught with such knowledge as we do now and the whole generation would mentally deteriorate to mush. You must help yourself before you can help others. It's just another fact of life.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

I believe that personal pursuit is the better endeavor because I am not just another man in a suit. I am my own person with my own destiny and I will not comply with the rest of the world for the common good. being obedient is over rated and I will not sit and emancipate myself with the rest of the black and white TV sets, IM going to break away into colors and live my life the way its supposed to be lived, to infinity and beyond. but don't get me wring i do love my loved ones but i will not help them with the common good just because they try to hold me down and cover my eyes so that i cant see. no one is going to make me invisible. the people we know now are just here to get us through that particular stage in life and have a couple of laughs along the way.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

It all starts out as a personal pursuit. Even though you go for the common good you need to be somebody to make a difference. So it all starts out as a personal pursuit to achieve what other people haven’t and make a difference in society.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

Personal pursuits are what help us to become who we are, and known for. We set standards for ourselves that only we can and are willing to go after. Yes we will get a sense of fulfillment and feel accomplished, but who’s to say that that fulfillment and accomplishment doesn’t lead to us advancing into the world of common good. Our personal pursuits teaches us valuable lessons, it is always said that you can only learn from your mistakes, and that is true, so within our personal pursuits if there is ever a mistake or a moment when things go wrong, all we can do is learn to keep it from happening again, and deal with the consequences of what happened. Learning from this, can help us learn and advance higher in the common good, because now we then know not only how any typical person that has been living life by common goods would handle a situation, take care of a dilemma, or deal with anything, but we know an alternative to that or those ways simply from our own personal experiences and lessons from our pursuits.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

Everyone is entitled to what they want to do for themselves. We each have a personal pursuit and with that personal pursuit we are not obligated to help the common good. For some people their personal pursuit is to help out the common good. For them it makes them feel better if they help others so in turn everybody is happy and did what they wanted to do.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

Although we would love this world to be perfect, its not; everyone is out there to achieve their own personal pursuits. But that doesn't mean that one can't also endeavor advancing the common good while achieving one's own personal goals. For instance, if one wants to become a rich doctor, then they should do that. And when they become rich, they can donate their money and their talents for medicine to help the sick.
Debate: Which type of endeavor is better, a personal pursuit or advancing the common good?
Side: Personal Pursuit

A personal pursuit is a better endeavor because you are fulfilling something within yourself. It is important to help others but there is a time to do so. Achieving a personal goal is a journey to fulfillment where one is truly happy. Before helping others you must remember about yourself, but you must not forget about those who are really in need.