On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The point of I'm trying to make in this discussion is, we > do a lot more good by focusing on what's working, and then expanding on > that, than we do by getting all accusatory about the things that are *not* > working. Think of a surgeon who's done thousands of successful routine operations. But every once in a while, he does a gastric bypass, and those patients more often than not end up harmed. It isn't appropriate in such a case to "focus on what's working". > (And such accusations often seem to be accompanied by an > unjustified assumption that the bad somehow outweighs the good.) > The question isn't whether the bad outweighs the good. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
