Collectivism: Article

As Planned Parenthood takes a step ahead, so do opponents

On Friday, PPH President Jill June confirmed that North Platte is still under consideration for a clinic.
"With more than 20,000 residents, it would be wrong to ignore the community," said June. "No definite decisions will be made until we have reached our fundraising goals."

      
     Planned Parenthood president Jill June's statement exemplifies that she believes opening a clinic would be for the benefit of the collective. In my personal opinion, I share her belief. Collectivism makes sure that the greater good of the people would be cared for, and I think that protecting the choices of potentially thousands of families is in the best interest of the group.

"We believe life exceeds a corporate boundary," said Rieker.

     Ed Rieker is also keeping collective goals in mind. However, his goal is to cut funding, and to prevent entirely, the opening of a clinic. He is always referring to "we" as a pronoun rather than "I". He is speaking on behalf of his group, representing their common and combined beliefs, and asking for this to be dealt with in a way that would please all of the members. Collective goals, naturally, may be reached via a consensus of all the members within the group. What most people tend to look over is that the leader still has more say than the collective's consensus.


     He states that "we believe life exceeds a corporate boundary." Which is essentially what collectivist, not-for-profit organizations would say. Life exceeds a corporate boundary.  Life is more than individual profit. 

"The building block of a stable society is the family, and life and families are under assault in our culture," Rieker said. "When we as a nation legitimize the killing of the unborn, we break the bond between the father and the mother and promote promiscuity and irresponsibility. Those things are detrimental to a stable culture."

   In this excerpt taken directly from the article, Rieker's use of "we as a nation" directly translates to "we as a collective." But by collective, he means his collective.