Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: guns and cigarettes

[Meg Palley (megp]

I share Racheli Gai"s views abaout guns in the project, for the same
reasons.  I dislike smoking in areas where I breathe though I claim no
allergies.  Why watch people destsroying themselves by poluting our ailr
and theirs?  Meg Palley.

Racheli Gai wrote:

> I guess I'm ready to own up to a bias and say that sharing
> a community with NRA members would not be my idea of fun.
> While such people belong the human race (not a compliment
> these days), I don't see that allowing people to have
> different ideas and life styles necessarily mean
> wishing to share a community with them.
> As to gun ownership - I don't know if we have anyone with
> guns in Sonora Cohousing.  I hope not, and perhaps this will
> come up in January, when we work on defining our values
> with Tree.  I'd just say that in a community where there are
> kids all around, and where they get into different houses
> (not always when invited), for someone to have guns lying
> about can prove deadly.
>
> Regarding smoking - we have one full-fledged smoker, and
> a few semi-closeted ones...  While smoke bothers me
> even outdoors (I have bad allergies and multiple chemical
> sensitivies)- I never felt comfortable asking someone not
> to smoke outdoors.  I guess I assume that my need for air
> isn't any more urgent than their need to keep their addiction alive :).
> What I really mean is: I know that addictions can be very hard to kick,
> and don't want to make anyone's
> life too difficult.
> R.
>
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