2009/5/26 Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net:
This is another example of being overly literal and avoiding common sense.
I'm not interested in the prejudices you acquired by the age of ten.
Obviously, when I say Wikipedia should avoid harm, I don't mean it should avoid *any harm whatsoever*.
Then don't say that.
Rather, it means that we need to think about how much harm something can do and not cause harm that is exceptionally acute when the benefit to the encyclopedia is relatively small. How do you figure this out? Well, you have to think--there's no rule for it.
Anything that doesn't present a significant chance of destroying the species cannot be considered exceptionally acute given how many things there are around that do carry that risk.