The Common Good and the Democratic Ideal by Gordon L. Ziniewicz 1. Every course of action can open or close opportunities, make new courses of action more or less possible. What we do changes conditions.
Actual consequences become resources or obstacles in a new situation.
The quality of ends projected in imagination is their potential as means in releasing new possibilities. Taking an extra part-time job may mean more cash on hand, but it may also close off educational and career opportunities that will count later on. Ends projected by an individual may be conflictual or compatible with one another. Projecting ends which work together increases the possibility of their fulfillment. But every moral situation is also a social situation.