[WikiEN-l] Re: troubled.

Wed May 12 17:18:43 UTC 2004

Delirium wrote:

> Erik Moeller wrote:
>
>>> I think if you were to take a poll and ask people if they found the
>>> image that's been wrangled over on [[Clitoris]] acceptable for public
>>> display, you'd find a large majority of the world's population would 
>>> say no.
>>>  
>>
>> Maybe, maybe not. My argument is that majorities are irrelevant in 
>> this  context. There should not be a tyranny of the moral majority.
>
> But what *should* there be a tyrrany of?  The majority of people who 
> happen to edit Wikipedia, who are generally well-off and concentrated 
> in North America and Europe?

There shouldn't be a tyranny of any sort.  I didn't take the reference 
to a poll as expressing an intent to seriously have one, but as a 
hypothetical statement about what such a poll might produce.

NPOV demands that we find some mutually satisfactory middle way.

Ec