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To: elmatador who wrote (25283)11/15/2007 7:43:58 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 217740
 
Yes, the US does have many voluntary collectives. Our way of life depends heavily on the altruism of volunteers.

Very different from clans or tribes, in that you can join if you want, and quit if you want.

Well, there are collectives that are rather hard to join, like country clubs, and there are collectives that are very hard to quit, like the Mafia, but those are outliers.

I am in Daughters of the American Revolution and donate time to Legal Aid. DAR does all kinds of do-good stuff for people in the military and school children. My husband is in the Masons and the Shrine, where he plays bagpipes in a marching band, which donates money to hospitals for burn victims. Strictly voluntary.

If it stops being fun, we stop going. And we don't kill people for belonging to the wrong collective. (Well, the Crips and the Bloods do, but that's another story.)
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