Hold on, how does it "harm" someone to restrain them from sabotaging a project? If a school principal requires a student to remove graffiti which says "Aron 151" from other students' lockers in the hallway, does this harm the student? I think it teaches them a valuable lesson in responsibility and in respecting the rights of others.
Enforcing a "do not harm others" rule is not inherently harmful.
Ed Poor
On 11/11/02 2:06 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
Hold on, how does it "harm" someone to restrain them from sabotaging a project? If a school principal requires a student to remove graffiti which says "Aron 151" from other students' lockers in the hallway, does this harm the student? I think it teaches them a valuable lesson in responsibility and in respecting the rights of others.
Well, yes, it teaches them that lesson by making them do something tedious and difficult, and which brands them as a vandal. Which isn't bad, as I said, as long as they need that lesson. But it certainly would be quite terrible to force the student to remove the graffiti if the student didn't do it.
Preventing someone from contributing to Wikipedia takes something away from them. That is harm.
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