Delirium wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
I think if you were to take a poll and ask people if they found the image that's been wrangled over on [[Clitoris]] acceptable for public display, you'd find a large majority of the world's population would say no.
Maybe, maybe not. My argument is that majorities are irrelevant in this context. There should not be a tyranny of the moral majority.
But what *should* there be a tyrrany of? The majority of people who happen to edit Wikipedia, who are generally well-off and concentrated in North America and Europe?
There shouldn't be a tyranny of any sort. I didn't take the reference to a poll as expressing an intent to seriously have one, but as a hypothetical statement about what such a poll might produce.
NPOV demands that we find some mutually satisfactory middle way.
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