[KLUG Members] loyalty, maturity and responsibility

[Eric Beversluis]

Consider some guys who have been members of a group for half a dozen or
so years--a group they consider very important and to which they've
devoted much energy. Now they find that the currently elected leadership
of the group is doing things that are not to their liking. What's the
mature and nonselfish thing to do? Surely not just to pick up their
marbles and go play some place else. Such behavior not only indicates a
selfish interest in themselves and their own satisfaction but also the
lack of enough maturity to stick with the group and try to move it in a
more satisfactory direction. And, furthermore, if the group has general
social value--as, for example, a group that is a 501(3)c public
charity--then maybe there are also nonselfish reasons for sticking with
the group, despite temporary dissatisfactions, rather than sulking off
to start another group.

EB