Cohousing-L Mailing List: " individual vs. group" statements

[racheli (racheli]

I want to respond to a common assumption which is: When
a single individual (or two or three) have a view which isn't in line with
the rest of the community, it's assumed that it's often the case that the
individual(s) are acting out of 
"selfish" motives.
This can be the case.  However, how about the possibility
that at times it's the majority which is behaving selfishly?
Should we assume that the majority has some special access
to what's true and good, and the minority doesn't?
Let's remember that Hitler got voted in by the majority of
German citizens.  And look who got voted in in the last
Israeli elections.  Other examples abound, of small minorities working for
something which is just and good, against a 
powerful tide.
Please don't take this to mean that minorities are always
good and just.  I just don't think there is way to generalize either way.

R.

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