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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, February Letters To The Editor The Record welcomes letters from its readers on any subject of public interest. Letters must be no more than 300 words in length. The publishers reserve the right to edit, condense, or reject any contributions. Letters must be signed and include an address and telephone number. Dear Editor: Partiality to Bluff and its Service District? If all other areas of very large San Juan County must wait for the County Com- missions general zoning plans, ' how can the Bluff Service District sidestep the law? There is no safe, legal way the San Juan County Commission can conduct a county-wid- e zoning plan and yet allow the Bluff Service District to slip in ahead of time with Commission approval of its contentious zoning plan - or even part of it. Behind closed doors at the end of 1998, the Bluff Service District zoning committee completed its zoning proposal without further public hearings, following the appearance Scherick and at its final public Maryboy of Redd, hearing, when it learned it was operating illegally. If it is allowed now to bring to the San Juan Commission its secretly completed zoning ordinances for Commission approval, this will be an affront to all the rest of huge San Juan County which is dutifully awaiting the general plan. This will expose the Com- mission to some long and pensive legal suits, as per vice from local and out-of-sta- ex- ad- te lawyers. The large majority of Bluff g citizens has aladvised the Commission ready it rejects and opposes the Bluff Zoning Committee plan. That majority is surprised to learn that the County Commission is ready to acquiesce to the Bluff Service District in its ceaseless efforts to avoid compliance, allowing it to sidestep the law which is for everybody else. Rosalie Goldman, Bluff land-ownin- 10, 1999 - 2 Page Dear Editor: Values, virtues and beliefs are often the victims of categorical confusion, the treating of things in different categories as if they are the same. This is occurring in the United States today, in impeaching Bill Clinton and in the bidding for the Olympic games. Every culture, religion, and society has values for its members to achieve, both collectively and individually. The values encompass sets of virtues which their members display in varying degrees with varying consistency. Cultures, religions and societies also have beliefs that define their special existence. Values are sets of standards and principles that are regarded as important and desirable. It is hoped that the values will be achieved through the individual free will of those who ascribe to them. Values include remembered traditions, religious tenets, and societal goals thought to benefit everyone. Some values are peace, freedom, liberty, belonging, power, wealth, and happiness. Included among these are family values, patriotism, salvation, and loyalty; and their various defenders such as antin and war, anti-gamovements. Within every set of values are virtues that are regarded as important and desirable for individuals. Virtues are traits of goodness generally regarded to be inherent in an individual. Like values, they can be taught or coerced. They are specific exemplary traits considered to be necessary in upholding values. The opposite of a virtue is a vice. Some virtues are the traits of honesty, generosity, courage, responsibility, kindness, patience, morality, and diligence. Some vices are dishonesty, anti-abortio- y, stinginess, cowardice, irresponsibility, deceit, and intolerance. This can be explained in the context of the current troubles of our president and the Olympic Committees. First the president. Many people are condemning the whole man because of his lack of one or more virtues; in this instance the virtue of honesty as it pertains to his denial ofhis sexual vices. His actions in contradiction of real and imagined cultural values and religious beliefs have outraged many segments of our society. Yet, the cultural values of power, wealth, peace, freedom and liberty are perceived as being achieved for U.S. citizens during his presidency. We have a moral dilemma. Many people are condemning the Mormon religion because of the lack of one or more virtues by its members of the Salt Lake Olympics Committee; specifically honesty, justice and fairness as it pertains to the International Olympic Committees bidding process. The bribery, both offered and accepted, contradicts our real and imagined cultural values and has outraged many segments of society. Yet, the cultural values of power, wealth, belonging and hap- piness are enhanced for U.S. citizens through the hosting of the Olympics. We have another moral dilemma. In both situations we have partisan points of view. In the Clinton debacle, we have Re- San Juan County is offering a $500 REWARD for information leading to the arrest & conviction of persons involved in an early January vandalism of county vehicles near Photograph Gap (Marie Ogden Area). If you have information please call the San Juan County Sheriffs Office, 587-223- publicans and Democrats. This is complicated by our labeling of ourselves as morally or politically left or right and then combining the labels so that a Republican is on the right and a Democrat is on the left, even though we know this is not absolute. If we are Republican, we are assumed to be morally right and against Clinton because he is a Democrat and morally left. 7. 7 Slightly different is the 1 Olympics debacle, in which we have Utahns and complicated by Mormons and non-Utahn- Non-Utah- non-Mormo- s, Monday through Friday 9 am - 5:30 pm The longest boundary the world is that be- Js L 3,987 miles. Custom ns dilemma hypocritical, espe- cially since most Mormons are also Republicans. 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