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Matt R wrote:
Are you saying that the ArbComm should be amoral?
Essentially, yes. If Hitler was able to contribute usefully to the project, but Mother Theresa wasn't, we'd be forced to ban the latter, and it would be outside of our remit to ban the former. However, in the real world, generally the nasty pieces of work who, based on the general consensus morals that we have but aren't meant to project into the encyclopædia, "deserve" to be banned will act in a way that isn't for the good of the project either, and so they get banned, too.
Hmm. Did you mean "amoral with respect to the participants' nature", or "amoral with respect to the participants' activities on Wikipedia"? It rather changes the question, and my answer to it...
Yours sincerely, - -- James D. Forrester Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] E-Mail : james@jdforrester.org IM (MSN) : jamesdforrester@hotmail.com