Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Law free

[Wayne Tyson (landrest]

Muriel and CoHo,

I grew up in a very rough and ready environment. The "system" works--it 
ain't perfect, but it works "after a fashion." What it does is modulate 
extreme fluctuations of behavior; it usually stops short of killin'. It 
develops politeness--but not to such extremes that reasonable retribution 
did not immediately follow the offense.

WT

""Tis friction's brisk, rough rub that provides the vital spark!" --A. R. 
Martin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Muriel Kranowski" <murielk [at] vt.edu>
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Law free


> 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.
>
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