I was trying to address it by saying: There are some areas where Wikipedia has flaws and there’s little or nothing we can do about it; there are other areas where Wikipedia has flaws and we can help fix them without too much effort and it can be very impactful and good. The point of (that part of) my comment was to point out that if you see the circumcision-vs-GM thing as a flaw, it would be a flaw that’s in the first category (i.e. practically unfixable), and we should shrug and move on, and we shouldn’t generalize from that to forget that the second category also exists.
The point of (that part of) my comment was to point out that if you see the circumcision-vs-GM thing as a flaw, it would be a flaw that’s in the first category (i.e. practically unfixable), and we should shrug and move on, and we shouldn’t generalize from that to forget that the second category also exists.
Whether or not the circumcision-vs-GM thing is a flaw depends what the purpose of Wikipedia happens to be. You might want Wikipedia to have a different purpose then it has, but I think that having an entity with the purpose for which Wikipedia was created is valuable.
Your argumention why it’s a flaw was also clearly faulty because it’s not about what terms the doctors who perform the procedure want to use.
There’s some complexity from seperating “X is a flaw according to my values” from “X is a flaw according to Wikipedia’s values” but it’s doable. And I do things that an institution with Wikipedia’s values provides value to society.
(If you look at what I wrote, I have never stated any opinion about whether it’s a flaw or not. It’s not relevant to the narrow point I wanted to make. You’re welcome to argue about it with other people.)
I was trying to address it by saying: There are some areas where Wikipedia has flaws and there’s little or nothing we can do about it; there are other areas where Wikipedia has flaws and we can help fix them without too much effort and it can be very impactful and good. The point of (that part of) my comment was to point out that if you see the circumcision-vs-GM thing as a flaw, it would be a flaw that’s in the first category (i.e. practically unfixable), and we should shrug and move on, and we shouldn’t generalize from that to forget that the second category also exists.
Whether or not the circumcision-vs-GM thing is a flaw depends what the purpose of Wikipedia happens to be. You might want Wikipedia to have a different purpose then it has, but I think that having an entity with the purpose for which Wikipedia was created is valuable.
Your argumention why it’s a flaw was also clearly faulty because it’s not about what terms the doctors who perform the procedure want to use.
There’s some complexity from seperating “X is a flaw according to my values” from “X is a flaw according to Wikipedia’s values” but it’s doable. And I do things that an institution with Wikipedia’s values provides value to society.
(If you look at what I wrote, I have never stated any opinion about whether it’s a flaw or not. It’s not relevant to the narrow point I wanted to make. You’re welcome to argue about it with other people.)