Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: (cohousing) communities' decision making premises

[Racheli Gai (jnpalme]

Hans wrote, in part:

>So, is it foreseeable that someone will be harmed if another person gets
>a gun? Is is foreseeable that smoking in the common room will detract
>from the intentions of the common house?

In the case of having guns on site, while it's not "foreseeable" that
someone might get harmed, it increases the liklihood that this might
happen. IMO it's also likely that someone who owns gun(s) has attitudes
about how to resolve conflicts which are quite far apart from my own's.
This doesn't mean that I wouldn't, under any circumstances, allow guns on
site - but it certainly makes it a problematic issue for me.

In case of smoking in the CH: If you want the place to be accessible to
all members of the community then, yes, someone smoking inside will
interfere with that intentionality.  We, for example, have a number of
people in the community with asthma or allergies.  Right now I might be
the only one with chemical sensitivities, but until recently there was
another one.  There might be others in the future.  (And that's in
addition to the fact that everyone's health gets compromised to a certain
degree by inhaling cigarette smoke).

R.


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