Love thy neighbors

I think it’s a safe estimate to say that more than 90% of this community is against having windmills on our picturesque Palouse hills. One landowner who signed a windmill contract agreed with me on that estimate.

Simply put, the Palouse is beautiful, and windmills are ugly.

No one I’ve talked to has “gotten used to” the windmills in the Oakesdale area. They are just as unsightly today as they were on day one.

“But what about private property rights,” is the response I got from another.

I don’t want to tell anyone what to do with their property, but having genuine consideration for how you affect your neighbors and acknowledging their feelings and opinions would be an honorable and virtuous position.

Whether for good or bad, how your decisions have an impact on others is what is the most lasting effect that a life will have.

As G.K. Chesterton said, “Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”

Travis Frei,

Palouse, WA