Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Consensus, Majority Vote, "Blocks"

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

More than fair:  Blocking is reserved only for the last resort, after all 
efforts to reason, dialog and compromise have come to naught.  And in fact, 
even after four years at Cornerstone, none of my hypotheticals has ever come to 
pass for me, and I have never blocked nothing.

Would that all my neighbors felt and acted the same.

RPD

On Sep 25, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Sharon Villines wrote:

>>  I block!
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> The tone of your message feels like taking relish in vetoing decisions, and 
> refusing to address the difference between a veto and an objection.
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> The reasons you give for vetoing are valid reasons for objecting to a 
> proposal — it's illegal, it affects you negatively, and it compromises your 
> ability to do your job. Objections on this basis would require resolution 
> before you could consent. But if you refuse to discuss resolution, then you 
> are vetoing and not being helpful.
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> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines, Washington DC
> "The truth is more important than the facts." Frank Lloyd Wright
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