Hoi,
When a group of people are to come up with a communal opinion, particularly
when this opinion is intended in order to judge a situation, a behaviour,
you can no longer dismiss this formed group opinion as just personal and
dismiss it as such. Obviously you can, because you do, but in this way you
undermine the integrity of the process whereby an arbitration committee
comes to its conclusions.
Thanks,
Gerard
2009/11/30 David Levy <lifeisunfair(a)gmail.com> (snip)
Not an actual court of law, but the Wikimedia equivalent (in this
instance, a committee convening to deliberate and render a verdict).
Obviously, the determination that someone has done something
"appalling" is a personal judgement, so it can't refer to that. It
means that we set aside our personal opinions and decline to judge
him/her as one judges someone on trial. (snip)