On 31/03/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/31/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/30/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
I don't recall signing up to a system of ethics when editing wikipedia.
Wow, Geni. :-(
There is no code of ethics mentioned in the registration form.
Which system of ethics would you have me adopt?
Those of the APA:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Rorschach1.jpg
those of Islam:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy
those of Catholicism I don't know if we have any of the works listed in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum on wikisource but...
I've already delt with the Wicca do no harm approach so what is it to be?
In a situation where a universally agreed system of ethics is likely to be impossible we must to an extent fall back on other more pragmatic approaches. The law is one. Preventing inaccuracy is another.
Perhaps one could think of our NPOV policies as necessitating a rationalist morality based on observable and measurable parameters. Anything outside this relies on belief and is POV.
In this manner, the kind of morality produced is indeed pragmatic and could be seen as quite similar to that employed by much of science today.