On 11/11/02 2:06 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com> wrote:
Hold on, how does it "harm" someone to
restrain them from sabotaging a
project? If a school principal requires a student to remove graffiti which
says "Aron 151" from other students' lockers in the hallway, does this
harm
the student? I think it teaches them a valuable lesson in responsibility and
in respecting the rights of others.
Well, yes, it teaches them that lesson by making them do something tedious
and difficult, and which brands them as a vandal. Which isn't bad, as I
said, as long as they need that lesson. But it certainly would be quite
terrible to force the student to remove the graffiti if the student didn't
do it.
Preventing someone from contributing to Wikipedia takes something away from
them. That is harm.