Certain religions and ideologies systematically devalue most of humanity.
Wikipedia policies are a sustained assault against that frame of mind.
Fred
From: El C <el.ceeh(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: El C <el.ceeh(a)gmail.com>om>, English Wikipedia
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:51:50 -0500
To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Subject: [WikiEN-l] When goals conflict: There is no "right" for everyoneto
edit Wiki
When one editor sees another not as human but as sub-human,
intrinsically and irreversibly, such a dialogue, though it might find
formal expression, is a caricature by any stretch.
The hardest thing with Wikipedia is to realize
that two editors with
diametrically opposite views both still are humans, and still can be
reasonable people. Denying that your opponent is also human is a grave
error and leads to lots of bad things happening in the world.
For an example of a well-behaved, NPOV-writing
nazi (albeit a convert)
see Spandau: The Secret Diaries by Albert Speer.
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