I think perhaps then the most fundamental disagreement we have is the idea that sexual images equal "harm".
FMF
On 1/29/09, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
To some of those people, and to others, trying to place restrictions of
any
sort of sexually explicit images is cultural relativism and censorship.
To
me, but maybe not to you, it is simply being responsible.
Re-reading myself, cultural relativism is not the correct description. If anything, its decried most often as moral absolutism or an assertion of cultural superiority. Obviously I disagree with that view. The way I see it, we as members of the Wikimedia community have a responsibility to not do harm. This principle, in a necessarily nuanced form, is embodied in the English Wikipedia policy governing biographies of living people - and it is past time that the core ideal of taking steps to protect others from being hurt by our work is extended to images.
Nathan
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