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Show OUR TIMES 0 OCTOBER 1992 . 5 Who's Interfering in Whose Life? There’s that wonderfully concise old saying: one man’s freedom stops at the end of the next man’s nose. Which means that our rigth do not include the right to punch the next guy in the nose. Most of us in Castle Valley don’t want other forces interfering with our lives. There is already too much of that, cool evening breeze carried the smell a enriching your soil by using the waste surprisingly long way. Garbage smoke for mulching or composting might solve part of the problem without a trip to town. Sure we're all going to be bothered occasionally, that's part of living so is much more unpleasant than wood smoke; we can probably agree on that. We don’t yet have any rules and regs about burning kitchen garbage, but the best way to assure that your neighbors will request some is to keep bothering them with the stench of your smolder- close together. Being a good neighbor means sometimes inconveniencing ourselves so as not to disturb others. economic forces, even religion, all ing kitchen garbage. We’ve all heard the line (maybe even used it), “What I do on my property is no one else's business!” But perhaps if we remember the old saying taking their tole. Our tolerance for any about freedom and the other guy’s more “rules and regs” is about zero, and we just want to mind our own business and be left alone. But though our aversion to more rules and regs is understandable, even healthy, we sometimes forget that the nose, we’ll begin to realize that many lights, our noise, sometimes even our abuse; the perpetrator should be required to stop. Whether it’s child sanitary habits—and that we are living closer together now that more lots are not only the victim but other people rules our own community adopts may being developed. who know of the situation should step just give us more freedom—in the form forward and ask the abuser to stop. ’T right hand side of the road. In abiding by this law, we obviously deprive The best way to be left alone is to keep “our business” on our own property where it doesn’t interfere with and disrupt our neighbors lives. As soon as the effects of one’s activities begin affecting those living nearby, then one has made his business their ourselves of the right and freedom to business and can no longer expect them drive on whichever side of the road we feel like—but by so doing, we gain the more important ability to get where we want to go on public roads and to to remain silent when their lives are impacted by his activities. When neighbor A is harming neighbor B by being inconsiderate, we have the classic perpetrator/victim situation. It really isn’t OK for the perpetrator to claim, “Since I’m not telling others how to live their lives, no one should tell me how to live mine.” One reason this line is NOT OK is that it is a blatant lie. If my neighbor fills of protection—than we lose from the restriction. A good example is the law mandating that we shall all drive on the survive the trip. The loss of freedom to choose our favorite side of the road is so clearly less desirable than our current law, that it may seem ludicrous to mention it, yet it’s a good example of how we can gain more important freedoms by giving up lesser ones. This is the type of rule and reg we shOuld seek in Castle Valley. We should gain more value from the protection than we lose from the selfimposed restriction. Of course, in some future better world, we may choose to rely more on neighborly consideration than on the odious “rules and regs” that seem to be our only present protection from harm. In Castle Valley, the old saying about freedom and the other person’s nose might be given a more contemporary meaning of not messing up our neighbors’ air. As a recent example, a couple of weeks ago I had some complaints from people living in the lower part of the valley. One neighbor was burning wet kitchen garbage—at night, perhaps so no one would notice—and was really stinking up the air the neighbors had to breathe. The of our activities travel right over our fence line—our smoke, our dust, our my house with the smoke from his any more than we have to. While toleration is a necessary virtue when we live with other people, the victim in an abusive situation should not be required to tolerate more abuse, spouse abuse, or neighbor abuse, When living in a small community like CV, I feel that the freedom not to be harmed by others is more important than the freedom to harm others by doing anything we want to do. —Jack Campbell YOUR VOTE COUNTS! ELECTION DAY Tuesday, 3 Nov 92 L08 Branch House ‘33? 7 am. to 8 pm. OPEN REGISTRATION ‘ 27, 28, 29 October Joanna Ehlers // Carlsberg Lane I 8 am. to 9 pm. a% 4.; btrming kitchen garbage, he is doing more than just telling me how to live Call Joanna at 7219 to my life, he is FORCING me to live see if you are registered or with the stench he has chosen to create. if you must register after hours As with so many of the situations ON THIS YEAR'S BALLOT: where one neighbor is abusing those arOund him, there are usually alterna$33 US. President, Vice-President tive ways for the abusive neighbor to US. Senate & Representative Q get his task done. Usually just a little Utah Attorney General \ consideration goes a long way towards 25% Auditor, Treasurer §§ solving the problem. If your neighbors Governor & Lieutenant Governor \ mind the smoke/noise/dust/pollution State Senator and Representative from your activity, why not do it when County Commissioner & Attorney they’re not home, so that it won’t Retain Judges bother them? Bright lights can be . State Board of Education shielded and loud noises can be Legislative Article Revision controlled so that neighbors are not Corporation Article Revision affected. In the case of the burning Executive Article Revision kitchen garbage, it’s not so inconveCounty Option: Pari-Mutuel Wagering 0 ”Ill, with IRS, employers, government bureaucratic layers, international Being a good neighbor means trying to live our lives so that we don’t disrupt and interfere with our neighbors’ lives nient to just take the garbage to the dump every couple of weeks—and Change in Grand County Government Hospital Tax Levy |
