note the "in general" . Our purpose is not the defense of the innocent
or the guilty, but the provision of acurate POV information about
matters of concern to the public. The provision of this information is
of general befit to tthe en tire community. We have a responsibility
to our subject, and a eq
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 22/04/2008, David Goodman
<dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In the long run, we avoid harming people in
general by telling the
truth.
I don't see how that works. If the truth is negative, telling the
truth does harm. The net result to society is positive (we generally
consider having a free, neutral encyclopaedia a good thing), but that
doesn't mean we haven't harmed the subject.
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