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