Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: work-or-pay system - legalities? general advice?

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

Hypotheticals, of course, can be pushed to extremes, and become
preposterous.  However, anticipating contingencies is a critical component
of all planning and forecasting efforts.  Of necessity, contingencies are
hypothetical; were they not, they¹d be actualities.

Philip Dowds
Cornerstone Cohousing
Cambridge, MA





On 4/19/11 12:50 PM, "Sharon Villines" <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> wrote:

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> On 17 Apr 2011, at 10:32 AM, Sharon Villines wrote:
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>> > Arguments based on hypotheticals are destructive because they are endless
>> and unresolvable. They require counter-arguments based on even more extreme
>> examples. 
> 
> "Destructive" was too strong a word to use here because arguments based on
> hypothetical situations are often not meant to be intentionally destructive.
> Still the effect often is.
> 
> Because these situations do not actually exist, they can't actually be
> addressed to anyone's satisfaction. To try often becomes endless because more
> are raised. The kill constructive debate and solutions.
> 
> Often the intention of hypotheticals is not to address real situations anyway
> ? it is to demonstrate how compassionate the speaker is, but only for the
> hypothetical persons being compassioned for. All others should just go back to
> work and get a heart.
> 
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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