On 2/4/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/4/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sorry, but for what I would hope are obvious reasons I think we should discourage people from playing out their paramilitary fantasies at Wikipedia.
So is your objection just to the "fantasy" or to the work they do? If it isn't the latter then just get over it. People have all sorts of stupid fantasies and all sorts of preoccupations. If they contribute well, I could care less if they do it while pretending to be torturers or not. Perhaps military metaphors are in questionable taste. So what? Don't participate if it bugs you.
I would be upset if Wikipedians pretended to be torturers.
It's not a taste issue -- it's a culture issue. I strongly believe that inclinations to building an outsider-insider dichotomy, a culture that worries about destruction and damage, that is paranoid about attack and ruination, is one that is pernicious to the Wikipedia project.