[WikiEN-l] Re: A neo-Nazi wikipedia

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 If you don't ever call anything evil, you also lose the power to present 
anything as "Good." I disagree that we should refain from taking a moral 
stance and let the facts just sort themselves out because of this.
 For example, if I refuse to call a serial killer 'evil' and just write what 
he did, I also lose the ability to call the detecitive who caught him a 
'good' person, as all I can do is present the facts. I would also 
technically lose the ability to say what happened to the victims was 'bad'. 
 I know wiki is supposed to have a NPOV, but that doesn mean that it has to 
lack moral judgement as well.
 On 8/25/05, Haukur Þorgeirsson <haukurth at hi.is> wrote: 
> 
> Hi, Jay.
> 
> Even as parody this wasn't very effective. No-one in this discussion has
> said anything like that. The point is that it is not Wikipedia's job to
> demonize Nazis. We should provide the facts on National Socialism - its
> tenets, practice and history - in a neutral encyclopedic way. Using this
> information our readers can decide for themselves whether it's demonic or
> not.
> 
> Regards,
> Haukur
> 
> 
> > You're right, how dare we demonize Nazis?
> > They're just regular loveable folk, like
> > the rest of us. They just happen to want
> > to oppress and/or kill Jews, Blacks, etc.
> > There's nothing demonic about that. And
> > don't forget all the good they've done,
> > and continute to do, for humanity. Yes,
> > there was the small matter of world
> > conflagration and mass genocide - but the
> > movement was young, and who can honestly
> > say they didn't make mistakes when they
> > too were youthful? Are we going to condemn
> > them simply for being a bit over-enthusiastic?
> >
> > To anyone who says "I don't like Nazis", I
> > say "look deep within yourself
> > -
> > if you can't like Nazis, that's a flaw in
> > you, not in them".
> >
> > Wikilove,
> >
> > Jay.
> 
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