If you don't ever call anything evil, you also lose the power to present anything as "Good." I disagree that we should refain from taking a moral stance and let the facts just sort themselves out because of this. For example, if I refuse to call a serial killer 'evil' and just write what he did, I also lose the ability to call the detecitive who caught him a 'good' person, as all I can do is present the facts. I would also technically lose the ability to say what happened to the victims was 'bad'. I know wiki is supposed to have a NPOV, but that doesn mean that it has to lack moral judgement as well. On 8/25/05, Haukur Þorgeirsson haukurth@hi.is wrote:
Hi, Jay.
Even as parody this wasn't very effective. No-one in this discussion has said anything like that. The point is that it is not Wikipedia's job to demonize Nazis. We should provide the facts on National Socialism - its tenets, practice and history - in a neutral encyclopedic way. Using this information our readers can decide for themselves whether it's demonic or not.
Regards, Haukur
You're right, how dare we demonize Nazis? They're just regular loveable folk, like the rest of us. They just happen to want to oppress and/or kill Jews, Blacks, etc. There's nothing demonic about that. And don't forget all the good they've done, and continute to do, for humanity. Yes, there was the small matter of world conflagration and mass genocide - but the movement was young, and who can honestly say they didn't make mistakes when they too were youthful? Are we going to condemn them simply for being a bit over-enthusiastic?
To anyone who says "I don't like Nazis", I say "look deep within yourself
if you can't like Nazis, that's a flaw in you, not in them".
Wikilove,
Jay.
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