In at least 150 words, make an argument in defense of promoting the desires and interests of individuals above the public good. use reason and evidence to support your argument.

I think that individual desires are more important than that of the public's

opinion on what is "good" because what is "good" for the majority may not be

"good" for specific individuals in society. For instance, a majority of the

population in America is white. During the advent of civil rights, many whites

opposed the allowance of blacks in America to have the same rights as white

people. If the matter was the situation was decided on popular vote alone,

blacks have oppressed longer. But the minority protections the country has

as a republic were cause for the movement for civil rights not to have to

convince the whole country, just enough politicians to move legislature.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.

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