The universal adoption of common good approach poses the ethical dilemma of putting collective interests over and above the individual interests. Discuss with examples.

A classic illustration of the situation would be Vinobha Bhave's Bhoodan movement where he distributed his own land to promote the collective good. It presents a dilemma where one sacrifices his personal interests over the public good.

Similarly, a civil servant whose appraisal is dependent on the successful completion of a road project. It demands him to relocate small marginal farmers whose livelihood would be destroyed. The decision of not displacing them and rejecting the tender would be a common good approach.

Environmental aspect of the issue could be human-animal conflict where an elephant is destroying fields but the farmer chooses to not fence the electric barbed wire rather look for alternatives with forest officials.