[WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

[WJhonson at aol.com]

"Harm" is gray, not black and white.  Almost anything we publish could  
*cause harm* in some way.
However the Rorschach images are not BLPs.  I'm sure publishing  details to
day about President Wilson's adultery might "cause harm" to his  descendents 
if any, but it's already been published in a dozen books so we  should not 
be the instrument for suppressing it, or for insinuating the desire  (by our 
action or inaction) for other media to suppress it.
 
Published details of World War II might cause harm, that doesn't mean we  
should not do it.  I don't think there is any community consensus for  
extending that particular policy language to the entire project.
 
Psychologists, like any other scientists, should make allowances for the  
subject-knowledge problem, that the subject knows the expected answers and 
knows  how to manipulate the results.  Taking account for that possibility is 
just  a part of being a scientist.
 
Protest alone is not sufficient to justify censorship.
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/1/2009 8:40:13 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
arromdee at rahul.net writes:

On Sat,  1 Aug 2009, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> > I think that AGF  requires that we take the psychologists at their word
> > when they  claim that they want the pictures removed because they cause 
harm,
>  > rather than to help their income.
> Methinks that posting was a  smiley facey wanting. I sincerely
> hope you weren't in dead  earnest.

What makes you think I wasn't in dead earnest?  Because  it's obviously 
silly
that someone would accuse psychologists of that?   It's nowhere near as 
silly
as lots of other things people say with all  seriousness over the Internet.
(And for all I know, I could have been  talking to a Scientologist, and
that's exactly how they think of  psychologists.)


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