Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Consent/Consensus, Sociocracy, and Appeals policy?

[Fred-List manager (fholson]

Abe Ross <cohoyote [at] gmail.com>
is the author of the message below.  It was posted by Fred of
the Cohousing-L management team <cohousing-l-owner [at] cohousing.org>
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Thank you Sharon, I agree completely

Abe Ross

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
Janis Joplin/Kris Kristofferson

On 4/9/2022 3:59 PM, Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L wrote (in part) :
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> Other groups produce the same results using different methods. This
>is similar to the two communities from “Collaborative Happiness”
>that I wrote about a few weeks ago, one Japanese and one Canadian.
>Each has been very successful for decades. But to ensure equality, the
>Japanese community measures everything in numbers, for example, to
>determine sameness, while the Canadian community measures only by
>feelings based on individual differences. One has rules for
>everything, the other has almost nothing so codified that it can be
>written down.