On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Sebastian Moleski sebmol@gmail.com wrote:
This really only makes a difference if you let political geography dictate our choices. I don't see any obvious reason why that should be the case. Rather, we always have to come back to (1) what purposes chapters serve and (2) what structure best accomodates those purposes. Ignoring all things political and legal for a minute, it seems to me that, if any of the following criteria are fulfilled, a chapter should be eligible to be formed:
- there's a sufficient number of people the chapter would cover with its
activities and could draw from for donations
- there's a sufficient legal or tax advantage that could be exploited (e.g.
tax-deductibility of charitable donations)
Apart from these criteria, why do things like borders matter?
If I may, legal or tax advantages are usually not tied to some "virtual cutout" of the world. They are very much tied to "political and geographical borders".
So yes, I believe borders matter, whether we want it or not.
Delphine