On Thu, 22 May 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Geoff Burling wrote:
Well, ask anyone, & you'll most likely be told, ``I have a perfectly NPOV. It's the rest of you who are biassed & don't know all of the important facts." ;-)
If someone says that, then they are confusing NPOV with "objective" or "unbiases" or "true" or "the whole truth and nothing but the truth" or something like that.
That was partly the point I meant to make, with humor. But the confusion lies on more levels than just one: I've had numerous occasions to talk with people who seriously express the POV I quoted above. (This comes up a lot if one talks about religion.)
I hope all of us have found ourselves slipping into the fallicy I alluded to in my brief comment; if not, either you're living in denial or a better person than I will ever be. And it was meant to serve as a reminder, like a string around a finger, that we can slip into it unless we are careful.
That was all.
Geoff