steven l. rubenstein said:
David, this is an issue I and others have raised
repeatedly over the
past years: many irresolvable disputes center on content, and
Wikipedia needs a mechanism for dealing with these content-based
disputes.
Why? If the disputes are irresolvable, why is it necessary to bring in a
deus ex machina to declare a resolution? Isn't it just more honest to
leave the irresolvable unresolved? I find this, the current way, quite
satisfactory and if the arbcom really is accepting cases that are in the
realm of content disputes then they should simply be more parsimonious in
the kind of dispute they accept.
Insisting on a solution to that paradox leads to the whole cloth from
which religions (including scientism) are carved.
People find it very difficult to accept that a problem may have no
solution or that a question may have no answer.
Ec