Tony Sidaway wrote:
steven l. rubenstein said:
David, this is an issue I and others have raised repeatedly over the past years: many irresolvable disputes center on content, and Wikipedia needs a mechanism for dealing with these content-based disputes.
Why? If the disputes are irresolvable, why is it necessary to bring in a deus ex machina to declare a resolution? Isn't it just more honest to leave the irresolvable unresolved? I find this, the current way, quite satisfactory and if the arbcom really is accepting cases that are in the realm of content disputes then they should simply be more parsimonious in the kind of dispute they accept.
Insisting on a solution to that paradox leads to the whole cloth from which religions (including scientism) are carved.
People find it very difficult to accept that a problem may have no solution or that a question may have no answer.
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