Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net writes:
Marc Riddell wrote:
on 4/7/07 5:40 PM, geni wrote:
Not so much. Information is power. Power includes the power to
kill.
Words and images can result in deaths. See [[Jyllands-Posten
Muhammad
cartoons controversy]]. So can almost any form of information
If wikipedia continues at it's current level of popularity it
is
likely that something in it will eventually indirectly result
in
deaths (if it hasn't already). At best we can hope that any
deaths
will be the result of truths rather than lies.
Bummer :-(
As the song says, "Always look on the bright side of life." A
death in
the pursuit of this jihad of truth will earn you the endless ministrations of 100 perpetual virgins. ;-)
Ec
No, no, that's a mistaken, heretical, and POV translation! What the Prophet Jimbo saith in his fifth sura was that death in the pursuit of truth guaranteed the martyr the endless ministrations of 100 perpetual "reference librarians", not "virgins". It is an easy mistake, but nevertheless crucial.