Am 21.09.2011 um 17:36 schrieb Tobias Oelgarte <tobias.oelgarte(a)googlemail.com>om>:
It's your basic philosophy that sucks. It's
_not_ the choice of the
reader to hide image he don't like. It's the choice of the reader to
hide image that others don't like! Now get a cup of tea and think about it.
It's the bad double-think that sucks. In most cases pictures give no neccessary
information in an article or they represent no NPOV information at all. They just
illustrate. No piece of information would be missing if the pictures were linked instead
of shown. Often it is sheer random which picture is choosen for an article.
But You are right. The basic conflict is philosophical. The question behind is: Shall we
continue as tough guys with porn pictures, no limits and no rules as everything started or
shall we include more sensitive people, women and nations?
Shall our knowledge come rude in one step to everybody or shall we try to reach more
people by making steps of least astonishment towards the same truth, but in a pace
everybody can live with?
For me this discussion is hypocrite. Don't hide Yoursef behind the "choice of the
reader". The writers of an article choose alone. They choose words, order and
content. The pictures are in most cases the least important of these. So every article
hides a lot of information the writers choose not to show. That's normal. And they
normally flippantly forget to write a style the more sensitive can live with, that's
all.