[WikiEN-l] Should Wikipedia endorse or oppose mass murder?

Tue Jul 6 14:34:56 UTC 2004

I havn't stopped beating my wife yet, if that's what
you mean...
I don't really think that we are forced to endorse
mass murder, but there are reasonable people who think
that it is occasionally the better of two evils.
(Hiroshima springs to mind)
Better to describe what happened, and leave the
endorsing or opposing to other forums.
Mark

--- "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com> wrote:
> Hatred leads to murder. Murder is bad. But should
> Wikipedia officially
> oppose hatred? Or mass murder?
> 
> Given that Jimbo regularly intersperses his mailing
> list posts with
> terms like "WikiLove" and urges us all to
> communicate cordially, perhaps
> a time will come when Wikipedia can move from
> near-anarchy and/or benign
> dictatorship to some sort of constitutional
> democracy. If so, a
> statement of values may be necessary.
> 
> Values inform rules. We can't just make up rules out
> of the thin air,
> and voting on them won't work if for no other reason
> than
> ballot-stuffing can't be tracked.
> 
> Yet the mainstay of Wikipedia's conflict resolution
> policy, indeed the
> only thing that allows it to be an open WIKI, is
> that all views are
> tolerated; i.e., no view is endorsed when there's a
> controversy. We all
> hesitate to tamper with this policy that has served
> us so well. But it
> has its weaknesses.
> 
> * There's no way to stop people from their
> Holocaust-denying,
> anti-Semitic rants.
> * The debate over mass murder (i.e., "genocide")
> carried out by
> Communist regimes always causes deadlock via page
> protection and
> bannings.
> 
> I mean, if hate and murder are such problems maybe
> we should officially
> label them as "bad".
> 
> Ed Poor (speaking for myself)
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