Pedro-
b) By adopting the "all articles must be treated the same way" we are assuming content is less important than NPOV. This might be true for things but if this is true for persons, I think the project is biased towards "people have no rights and this project has rights over all people".
Actually 1) I am the one who blurred the prisoner photos on the Abu Ghraib article in order to protect their identity, after that problem was pointed out 2) I have, from the start, voted against showing Nick Berg's severed head and find that picture in very bad taste, especially as the case is still very much in the news 3) I have suggested a temporarily reduced threshold of hiding offensive photos until we have better technological solutions to let end users make these decisions
So I find your insinuation that this is somehow an attempt by me to campaign for the inclusion of photos that neither I nor you want quite unfair. I am concerned with dealing with this issue in a fair and neutral manner, but I am always open to pragmatic and humanistic arguments.
For example, I could imagine that a compromise could be reached with the 8 users who insist on showing the Nick Berg photo inline to wait with any such move for 1 year, to let the issue cool down, and to only include the photo when user-side filtering technology is in place.
Regards,
Erik