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(a)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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