[WikiEN-l] Destructionism

[David Gerard]

On 9 August 2010 21:29, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think you have to have delusional ideas about article "perfection"
> to understand that at as article quality increases, the chance that any
> individual edit will improve it decreases.


Not at all. The leap from "is" to "ought", however, is fallacious and
an important and damaging error. [1] It's the "something must be done,
this is something, therefore this is a good idea" fallacy.


- d.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem