Wrong
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Doctors can make more on ordering tests sometimes, and also they no longer even know what's right or
wrong.
It's like having a little lawyer on your shoulders all day long, whispering in your ear, "Could that go
wrong?
Might that go wrong?"
Or do I have something
wrong
with the equipment?"
Or is the whole design of the system
wrong?
I would move heaven and earth in order to get treatment for Darius, and for me to be told that there might be other Dariuses who are not getting treatment, that's just viscerally
wrong.
I decided to have a child, and before I did that, I quickly studied what can go
wrong.
There's nothing
wrong
with that, but just ask yourself, "Is this a journey I want to take?
And don't get me wrong, that was really fascinating, you know, the biotic community unplugged, kind of thing.
Now, women look at that sentence and they say, uh-uh,
wrong.
Now, the crucial thing to notice here is that this is a factual claim: This is something that we could be right or
wrong
about.
And if we have misconstrued the relationship between biological complexity and the possibilities of experience well then we could be
wrong
about the inner lives of insects.
So, for instance, if it's really
wrong
to lie, it must always be
wrong
to lie, and if you can find an exception, well then there's no such thing as moral truth.
Now, it is the position, generally speaking, of our intellectual community that while we may not like this, we might think of this as
"wrong"
in Boston or Palo Alto, who are we to say that the proud denizens of an ancient culture are
wrong
to force their wives and daughters to live in cloth bags?
And who are we to say, even, that they're
wrong
to beat them with lengths of steel cable, or throw battery acid in their faces if they decline the privilege of being smothered in this way?
Now, granted, for many men it may require a degree in philosophy to see something
wrong
with these images.
Now the irony, from my perspective, is that the only people who seem to generally agree with me and who think that there are right and
wrong
answers to moral questions are religious demagogues of one form or another.
It needs people like ourselves to admit that there are right and
wrong
answers to questions of human flourishing, and morality relates to that domain of facts.
It is possible for individuals, and even for whole cultures, to care about the
wrong
things, which is to say that it's possible for them to have beliefs and desires that reliably lead to needless human suffering.
But how
wrong
it is.
We walked into Walter Reed and I could not have been more
wrong.
Well, the things I constantly hear are: Too many chemicals, pesticides, hormones, monoculture, we don't want giant fields of the same thing, that's
wrong.
And I decided to ask him what was
wrong.
And the way I do that is not by arguing with them, not by debating them, not by even telling them they're wrong, even though, boy, I want to sometimes.
They aim their pictures at your best instincts, generosity, a sense of right and wrong, the ability and the willingness to identify with others, the refusal to accept the unacceptable.
What is
wrong
with your life?
What is
wrong
with my life?
But those sensations might not be an indication that anything is
wrong
with your life.
One of the guidelines I've kept for myself is: every day I ask myself how many things I am dead
wrong
about.
Something about law and lawyers has gone
wrong.
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