Re: Giving or Taking | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Molly Williams (mmw![]() |
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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 > > _______________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list > Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: > http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l
- Re: Taxes and the Common Good, (continued)
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- Re: Taxes and the Common Good Molly Williams, October 2 2001
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- Re: Giving or Taking Molly Williams, October 2 2001
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