Wikipedia Admin's Manipulation "Messed Up Perhaps 15,000 Students' Lives"

Andreas Kolbe writes: Recently, "ArbCom", Wikipedia's highest court, banned an administrator account that for years had been manipulating the Wikipedia article of a bogus Indian business school – deleting criticism, adding puffery, and enabling the article to become a significant part of the school's PR strategy. Believing the school's promises and advertisements, families went to great expense to send sons and daughters on courses there – only for their children to find that the degrees they had gained were worthless. "In my opinion, by letting this go on for so long, Wikipedia has messed up perhaps 15,000 students' lives," an Indian journalist quoted in the story says. India is one of the countries where tens of millions of Internet users have free access to Wikipedia Zero, but cannot afford the data charges to access the rest of the Internet, making Wikipedia a potential gatekeeper.

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Re:Maybe you should have read more than one senten

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yes: blame the victim

the "logic" of this line of thought never ceases to surprise me

it doesn't matter who was shot, who was robbed, who was raped... there's always some fucking genius out there who wants to present a rationale whereby the victim is at fault

do you consider yourself a moral person?

you do?

stop

you're not a moral person. you really aren't. you lack moral reasoning

morality is *never* about blaming the victim

example:

if i put $100 on my front porch i'm an idiot. a moron. stupid

and innocent

if someone steals that $100 they have transgressed onto property that clearly was not there's and taken something which was clearly not there's. they are the person 100% in the wrong. they are who you *should* blame

but you don't, do you?

what we have is a world where people like yourself take all of your outrage, and point it at the victim for being "stupid" (all crimes can be described in a manner where the victim has done something stupid along the way and so they "deserve" it). but the really amazing part is: how much of your "outrage" have you pointed at the perp? none. you let the actual criminal get away with zero blame in your mind. thus, you lack fundamental moral reasoning

"oh but i do blame the criminal too..." but you spend your energy attacking the victim. that's who you blame. that's the problem

you're the problem, in many ways, more than than the stupid victim, more than the evil criminal

because you further victimize the victim, and you let the perp get away without any blame or focus. and so justice is not served. the victim suffers more. the perp goes on to victimize others. some even laud the criminal for being strong and tough for picking on the stupid and the weak. true amorality

just take solace in the knowledge there are a hell of a lot of douchebags out there like yourself who blame the victim all the fucking time

there should be a morality iq test in this world. lot's of "intelligent" people (good at chess and software design) seem to lack really basic fundamental aspects of moral reasoning