Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Should individual "sponsorship" be allowed of communityproperty?

[Kevin Kleinfelter (cohousing-l]

> From the comments on this topic, it is apparent that there are multiple 
models of community/cohousing.  I'd call one, "cooperating independent 
households," or perhaps "to each according to his needs and from each 
according to her means."  I'd call another, "strict equality."  Others 
certainly exist.

Perhaps I'm reading something into messages that isn't there, but I sense a 
tone of this-is-the-right-way in some messages.  Interdependence includes 
independence, but the degree of independence is not carved in stone (or 
even in Lexan).  The degree of independence within interdependence is 
something that a community has to work out for itself over time.  It may 
even change over time, with some members leaving to seek more/less 
independence.  They may even join seeking one level, and grow to value a 
different level.

Values that suit one community will be different from the values that suit 
another community.  This is good.  The harm comes when one says, ours are 
better.

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