Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: work-or-pay system - legalities? general advice?

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On 17 Apr 2011, at 10:32 AM, Sharon Villines wrote:

> Arguments based on hypotheticals are destructive because they are endless and 
> unresolvable. They require counter-arguments based on even more extreme 
> examples. 

"Destructive" was too strong a word to use here because arguments based on 
hypothetical situations are often not meant to be intentionally destructive. 
Still the effect often is. 

Because these situations do not actually exist, they can't actually be 
addressed to anyone's satisfaction. To try often becomes endless because more 
are raised. The kill constructive debate and solutions.

Often the intention of hypotheticals is not to address real situations anyway — 
it is to demonstrate how compassionate the speaker is, but only for the 
hypothetical persons being compassioned for. All others should just go back to 
work and get a heart.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org