Ethical Fashion as part of the Common Good
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Annaborgia (Unpublished)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016/08/29
Ethical fashion, in a sense, can influence the public wellbeing because ethical fashion is part of the common good. What’s the common good?
Roads for driving. Public and well-funded schools for education. Clean governance for transparent and effective leadership. Social safety nets for the unfortunate. Charities for the community. Food drives for the hungry. Rehabilitation for the addicted and downtrodden. Housing for the houseless.
There’s a lot of things. The nature of the common good is the nature of the commons. The commons is a basic area that is the privilege of the common people and the responsibility, as caretakers, for the sake of the common good.
For a long time, people involved themselves with the general enterprise of the forests and the farmland. It goes back to Anglo-American law. It’s a common area for the common good.
Ethical fashion can be seen in the same light, if people are seen as resources (not to be extracted, but to be taken care of and cherished). In times of need, resources are used or contribute to the common good.
Adults with skills and areas in the local region as community with possible utility. You use what you need, not what you want, and leave the rest. It’s not about consumption, but about respect, concern, and wellbeing.
In that sense, people as resources in the common good form a part of that common ethic. Ethical fashion is all about. It’s about respect, concern, and wellbeing.
Respect for individual rights. Concern for the impact on the environment and about the working conditions. Wellbeing of individual workers as a whole, and the potential negative implications for their families.
We can’t not leave it. It’s part of the general systematic view in ethical fashion that does seem to have aspects seen in ideas about the commons and the common good.
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