[WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia Policy as sovereign law

[Luna]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>

That's one difficulty of applying  "do no harm" simplistically. :) Asimov's
robots managed to figure out a 0th law to supercede the 1st in important
circumstances; why can't we?

-Luna