Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: meeting minutes

[Diana Carroll (dianaecarroll]

I appreciate having names. If I couldn't attend the meeting, but someone's
opinion was concerning or interesting to me, I can go talk to them about
it. I've also appreciated names when years later we are reviewing notes to
understand why some decision was made. More than once I've seen something
like "Jane objects because she prefers slorgles to boffits"...and now Jane
doesn't remember that at all, and has now come to prefer boffits...so we
know it's a good time to revisit out slorgles decisions. And there remains
that reality that opinions don't just exist in a vacuum...we all have a
history that informs our thoughts on all matters...being aware of other
people's "back story" helps me understand their opinions in context. I've
heard the theory that opinions should always be considered on their
context-free merit, without names, but I don't agree with that at all.

Diana
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 6:12 PM Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote:

>
> There's more than one way to take inadequate minutes; one would be to
> simply type up what each speaker says, which isn't what I do. My question
> remains what I started with - is there a good reason to attach people's
> names to their opinions when directly quoted or indirectly cited? Is there
> a good reason not to?
>      Muriel at Shadowlake Village
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