On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I don't see how that works. If the truth is
negative, telling the
truth does harm. The net result to society is positive (we generally
consider having a free, neutral encyclopaedia a good thing), but that
doesn't mean we haven't harmed the subject.
That's one difficulty of applying "do no harm" simplistically. :)
Asimov's
robots managed to figure out a 0th law to supercede the 1st in important
circumstances; why can't we?
-Luna