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Why is that? People with deadly viruses aren't insulted that we call malevolent programs computer viruses. Equating my laptop with a human would be insulting,
by libria 9y ago
Why is that? People with deadly viruses aren't insulted that we call malevolent programs computer viruses. Equating my laptop with a human would be insulting, but I don't think that was done here.
- lisper 9y agoBecause real cancer kills people. Wikimedia spending more money is not going to result in anyone actually dying. Calling it a cancer trivializes the pain and suffering of people with actual cancer and their families.
- elect_engineer 9y agoI am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". For the record, I am myself a cancer survivor, and I have received multiple emails from other Wikipedians who have cancer saying that they have no problem with my essay title.
- lisper 9y agoI've been very fortunate never to have had cancer, and to only ever know one person who did. But she'd dead now so I can't ask her for her opinion. I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree about this.