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	Name:	longtimer -
	Subject:	I disagree.
	Date:	11/20/2006 11:51:26 PM

If you go to the doctor and he diagnoses you with two different diseases, he probably isn't going to pick which one to treat and which to ignore; he is going to want to treat both. Otherwise, what's the point? Why put your broken leg in a cast and ignore your brain tumor?

Likewise, there are many different things that threaten this lake. We might not agree on what they are, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. And what some perceive as a problem others might perceive as a benefit, but that doesn't mean that one side is wrong and the other right; it just illustrates that people are different in many different ways. Some like crowds, some like solitude. Some like rap music, some like classical. None of them are wrong. (The problems arise when one group tries to impose its likes on the other. Listening to rap music is fine; forcing someone who hates it to listen is not. Smoking cigarettes is fine; forcing me to breathe your smoke is not.)

I suppose you think the DOT should decide what the biggest hazard on the highway is, and work on fixing that, while ignoring everything else. "Speeding is the number one problem, so let's work on that. Of course that means that we are saying that running red lights, drinking and driving, and all other violations are okay, since there can be one and only one problem."

Again, you don't have to agree with all of the issues that website addresses, or disagree with all of them; you are free to agree with some, disagree with others, and decide that some don't affect you at all. But to decide that there is just one issue is blind, and maybe a little bit selfish. (Either that, or it shows that you are one of those people who don't have what it takes to be able to see the big picture, and to think about more than one thing at a time. There are many people like that; you don't strike me as one of them.)

Personally, I think the biggest issue facing that website is that people ignore it; they'd rather have discussions about Tom and Katie's baby or re-tell old jokes than admit that there are problems with the lake, problems that need to be addressed, not ignored.

Then again, this is the generation that was raised to ignore anything that didn't affect them directly, and to completely discount opinions that differ from their own. Which, when you get right down to it, is probably why this lake is facing so many problems in the first place.