Gregory Maxwell wrote:
But is it imperialistic to say that one side of the
issue does not
have the right to completely exclude the other side with the only
justification being that the one side believes they have a commandment
from god to rid the world of such ideas?
Again, really, this is just extremely over the top. Tell you what, if
you go out and find someone in the wikipedia community who says "I
have the right to complete exclude the other side because I have a
commandment from god to rid the world of such ideas" then by all means
drag them in here to the mailing list so we can make fun of them.
It'll be great fun.
In the meantime, let's try to address the arguments of people who are
actually engaged in this discussion. I think that virtually everyone
comes down along a spectrum in the broad middle which says: (a) there
are universal standards and (b) there are local cultural
considerations as well, so that (c) we expect some things to be more
or less universal, but we can also have some local flavor.
--Jimbo
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