Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Law free

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

Wayne, I don't know what kind of communities you've lived in, but thrashing 
members who ignore social norms does have a certain rough-and-ready appeal.
   Muriel

At 08:54 PM 5/10/2011, you wrote:
> <snip>
> PS: I have lived in communities where cooperation was prevalent and
> voluntary. Socially "challenged" people soon got the idea, through feedback
> or its lack, how they were "fitting in." Sociopaths got ostracism, a good
> thrashing, or the long arm of the law, in roughly that ascending order. Most
> folks just "got along." "The perfect is the enemy of the good" might be an
> oversimplified aphorism, but it also might be worth mulling over.