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One simple question: How does a repeal solve the ethics concern?

By Oliver

What Repeal Does To Resolve

Broomfield became a city and county to more easily accomodate the needs and wants of Interlocken. Incidentally, it will raise BF citizen taxes and make school consolidation more difficult to achieve. Becoming a city and county took the power from the people and gave it to a corporation. That is the ethics issue ... and that is the concern that would be resolved by repeal.

If Broomfield were to become a city and county in order to benefit the citizens it would address issues of concern to the citizens: school consolidation, annexation, boundaries, taxes, etc. It's not that this couldn't be done ... it's that this wasn't done. The involved politicians chose to serve the corporation and to ignore the citizens.

Maybe, someday in the future, when an honest politician accidentally ends up in office - they could form a county that benefits the citizens.

By WW

Reply to Ethics by WW

Ethical dilemmas involve the tough choices that don't necessarily center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted in our basic core values. Broomfield chose to do what was best for the greatest good for the greatest number, despite the protestations of a small, albeit vocal, group. Most legislation is crafted with such a utilitarian view of what is best for most, unless human rights are involved.

All ethics rest upon the single premise that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. While individual instincts prompt us to compete for our own places in the community, our sense of ethics prompt us to co-operate. To see the world in terms of rights is to see human beings as isolated, autonomous individuals who interact with one another essentially as strangers. Although there are certainly circumstances when that way of seeing the world is appropriate, to see the world exclusively in terms of rights stresses the individualism at the expense of community.

The jail had to go someplace. Why don't you "ethical" individualists step up and do your part to co-operate with the greater community? Make the best of your situation. Since you are having the jail 1.5 miles from your homes for the greater good, why not ask for a little compensation in the way of some trees to block you view? If I were you, I would ask the leaders of Westminster to plant some trees behind your houses. They would not have to be very tall, as the jail is 1.5 miles away.

I understand you say it is not about the jail. But that is where it began. Without the jail, you wouldn't be having this "ethical" discussion.

By BC Northglenn

"new" friends???

Well, well, well,
It seems that we have sparked some interest from some new "friends".
Oliver? A new anon.?
Welcome.
New opinions and ideas are always welcome here. As you have read, and are NOW aware of, this is a tuff group to sling your misinformed opinions at.
I know it must be hard for someone
occasionally looking in - on all of this - to truly understand what we are about.
You will get better results by asking questions so that we might help you understand or to simply give a polite
opinion. The people that are working on
this "project" and the people that are truly interested in doing something about our local governments are working hard to make a differance here.
(but mostly away from here!)
"If" YOU would like to HELP make a
differance - instead of insulting and
antagonizing this group - we welcome you.
Other wise - I'd like to suggest that you just go kick your dog - and leave us
alone. To my fellow discussion friends,
let's not waste any more energy on this
kind of harrasment.
Let them vent........
Hopefully they will go away.
( Good job on given'em the business though!)



By Chris