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How Should the Communities Movement Handle Questions of Abuse? Responding to Benjamin Zablocki’s Proposed “Bill of Rights”

Laird Sandhill

Abstract

The author responds to Zablocki's proposal (in this issue) of a bill of inalienable rights for intentional communities. Although Zablocki's proposal has merit, the author suggests that the most important first step is to collect information and ideas from as many sources as possible, particularly intentional communities. Instead of a bill of rights to which communities subscribe or not subscribe, the author proposes that communities respond in writing to a group of questions derived from the open-ended research. The answers would be available to all prospective members.

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