note the "in general" . Our purpose is not the defense of the innocent or the guilty, but the provision of acurate POV information about matters of concern to the public. The provision of this information is of general befit to tthe en tire community. We have a responsibility to our subject, and a eq On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/04/2008, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
In the long run, we avoid harming people in general by telling the truth.
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.
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