Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Giving or Taking

[Rosa Leah (rcarson]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Diane R. Margolis wrote:

> Let's see, Molly.  They have more children, but you have more land and
> you think they should pay more for education.  Then I guess you should
> pay more for the defense of your larger land holdings.  And, being
> wealthier, I guess you travel more and should pay for the construction
> and maintenance of roads.

And maybe the people who have more children should pay more for the larger
quantity of the world's limited resources that their family uses?

Yikes.  This kind of response seems unnecessarily attacking.  Molly was
talking about her feelings, and being honest about sometimes feeling
resentful about social costs.  I didn't hear her advocating for people to
run out and protest property taxes!  None of us is perfect in practices of
equality, last I knew about.  A lot of what we're talking about here is
people's feelings.  It costs nothing but a little extra attention to show
appreciation for people's participation in community, whether financial or
otherwise, and that kind of feeling approach can, imo, smooth over this
kind of conflict pretty well.  No one likes to be taken for granted or
attacked for the way s/he feels.

But maybe that's just me.
Rosa
Mosaic Commons Cohousing
somewhere, eastern MA
http://www.mosaic-commons.org

         And why should night and day be so radically divided?
             Is there anyone for whom loving and thinking
                 are lived as different beginnings?
 Would I have to spend my days with the one and my nights with the other?
                       -- Luce Irigaray

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