Re: Giving or Taking
From: Molly Williams (mmwwaveinter.com)
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:59:02 -0600 (MDT)
Thank you, Rosa. I never know what to do with this kind of response
(Diane Margolis's). I also really appreciate the recent posts on
diversity in cohousing communities. 

~ Molly


Rosa Leah wrote:
> 
> 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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