Gregory Maxwell wrote:
But is it imperialistic to say that one side of the issue does not have the right to completely exclude the other side with the only justification being that the one side believes they have a commandment from god to rid the world of such ideas?
Again, really, this is just extremely over the top. Tell you what, if you go out and find someone in the wikipedia community who says "I have the right to complete exclude the other side because I have a commandment from god to rid the world of such ideas" then by all means drag them in here to the mailing list so we can make fun of them.
It'll be great fun.
In the meantime, let's try to address the arguments of people who are actually engaged in this discussion. I think that virtually everyone comes down along a spectrum in the broad middle which says: (a) there are universal standards and (b) there are local cultural considerations as well, so that (c) we expect some things to be more or less universal, but we can also have some local flavor.
--Jimbo