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Now we might be
wrong.
Now sometimes, we break the world up into us versus them, into in-group versus out-group, and sometimes when we do this, we know we're doing something wrong, and we're kind of ashamed of it.
And what started his career is an insight that the way most people were thinking about the Holocaust was
wrong.
So often they're rational and useful, but sometimes they're irrational, they give the
wrong
answers, and other times they lead to plainly immoral consequences.
But other times we say, "This is wrong."
But both views are dead
wrong.
The first that one sometimes finds on the right suggests that most Muslims are fundamentalist or something about Islam is inherently fundamentalist, and this is just offensive and wrong, but unfortunately on the left one sometimes encounters a discourse that is too politically correct to acknowledge the problem of Muslim fundamentalism at all or, even worse, apologizes for it, and this is unacceptable as well.
—Clifford Stoll, Newsweek, 1995] You must admit that gives you, at least it gives me pleasure when somebody says how dead
wrong
you are.
You would be so
wrong.
It's why when people do sequels, or rip off movies, you know, of a genre, they're ripping off the
wrong
thing.
It often gets hooked on the
wrong
things.
I'm not making a moral argument that economic inequality is
wrong.
I also think it's a huge part of Facebook, the monkey that adopts the cat or the great dane who adopted the orphaned fawn, or the cow that makes friends with the pig, and had you asked me eight, nine years ago, about these, I would have told you that they were hopelessly sentimental and maybe too anthropomorphic in the
wrong
way and maybe even staged, and what I can tell you now is that there is actually something to this.
Don't get me wrong, the challenges that women will face in telling their stories is real, but we need to start pursuing and trying to identify mediums to participate in our system and not just pursue the media blindly.
I tried it and gained 10 pounds in the
wrong
places.
If I really struggle morally and agonize and I decide to do the right thing, what difference does it make, because there are an infinite number of versions of me also doing the right thing and an infinite number doing the
wrong
thing.
There are no geysers in the Amazon, unless I am
wrong.
What we've discovered is the only thing
wrong
with poor people is they don't have any money, which happens to be a curable condition.
We've made a fascinating discovery: there's nothing
wrong
with the kids that affection and sunshine and food and enthusiasm and Herbie's music can't cure.
That's
wrong.
As I tried to process what he was saying, I was thinking, "What the hell is
wrong
with you?" (Laughter) "We can't do this now."
They use the Internet not to plot bombing attacks but to read the news or exchange recipes or to plan their kids' Little League games, and those people are doing nothing
wrong
and therefore have nothing to hide and no reason to fear the government monitoring them.
After all, if you're not a bad person, if you're doing nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide."
The last point I want to observe about this mindset, the idea that only people who are doing something
wrong
have things to hide and therefore reasons to care about privacy, is that it entrenches two very destructive messages, two destructive lessons, the first of which is that the only people who care about privacy, the only people who will seek out privacy, are by definition bad people.
As somebody who finds mass surveillance odious for all the reasons I just talked about and a lot more, I mean, I look at this as work that will never end until governments around the world are no longer able to subject entire populations to monitoring and surveillance unless they convince some court or some entity that the person they've targeted has actually done something
wrong.
Today, most of us have to wait for symptoms to indicate that something is
wrong.
So the punchline is, there is no
wrong
side of the tracks.
He was teaching himself to communicate, but we were looking in the
wrong
place, and this is what happens when assessments and analytics overvalue one metric — in this case, verbal communication — and undervalue others, such as creative problem-solving.
As someone who wonders if Maslow got it wrong, I find this choice to prioritize spiritual needs deeply humbling.
My teachers thought there was something
wrong
with me because I wasn't paying attention in class.
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