--- Sheldon Rampton <sheldon.rampton(a)verizon.net> wrote:
Couldn't this whole problem be addressed simply by
creating a
separate article...
I would prefer putting them at the bottom of the article. After the
heading: Warning: some people might find the photos below offensive.
Or not.
I personally think that since we're not a newspaper, we should not
apply to ourselves rules which newpapers apply to themselves.
I personally think that if I wrote an article on the treblinka
extermination camp (which I did), that photos of the camp and
(however disturbing) the condition of the prisoners should not be
seen as "cruel" and "gross". The text itself does that (read about
the beating to death with shovels and the chopping off of women's
breasts with cavalry sabers if you want gross and disturbing.)
A clitoris, for God's sake, might be titillating, or not, but is
certainly not cruel, gross, or disturbing. Half the population of the
planet has one. It would be like disallowing pictures of teeth, or
ears, or belly buttons or toes.
Remember please that this encyclopedia must stand the test of time,
and not be seen by future generation as the epitome of everything
that was wrong with society at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Please go read up on Voltaire, Rousseau, and Baudelaire, and perhaps
the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution and its
Preamble.
These documents stood the test and hatred of time especially because
they address core issues without self-censorship, but rather with
exhuberance.
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Christopher Mahan
chris_mahan(a)yahoo.com
818.943.1850 cell
http://www.christophermahan.com/
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