Maybe but we're sliding over to a philosophical discussion... the bottom line is that saying something like saving a life is disrupting our goal of building an encyclopedia is plain stupid and shows someone might have become too immersed in the goal of building an encyclopedia to see that there are things that are perhaps even more important than wikipedia.
On 4/7/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/7/07, Yonatan Horan yonatanh@gmail.com wrote:
If we saved one person's life, at least to me, that's worth more than writing a thousand featured articles. Things like this put things like "building an encyclopedia" into perspective....
Not so much. Information is power. Power includes the power to kill.
Words and images can result in deaths. See [[Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy]]. So can almost any form of information
If wikipedia continues at it's current level of popularity it is likely that something in it will eventually indirectly result in deaths (if it hasn't already). At best we can hope that any deaths will be the result of truths rather than lies.
-- geni
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