What was wrong he did not know, yet he sensed the
wrongness and watched suspiciously.
It is reasonable to think that my theory may be used for explaining and systematizing judgments concerning degrees of
wrongness. My judgements concerning the matrixes one and two may, for example, be partly explained by the theory.
There is, we may think, something wrong with the free will/determinism binary here, but it has proved hard to say just where the
wrongness lies, and Milton's commitment to this vocabulary makes it hard for his critics not to use it.
So much love recalled with precise
wrongness. In the end everything had been seen to: safety pins galore.
But the notion that we ought to measure the rightness or
wrongness of our own actions against the standard of the health and well-being of all living things in general, or against the standard of the "health" of the planet in general, is just plain silly.
As a social rather than a literary observer, Mencken believed from the start "that the distinguishing mark of the normal Americano was his essentially moral view of the world, his tendency to color all values with concepts of rightness and
wrongness, his inability to throw off the Puritan obsession with sin." He would hardly be surprised to know that, nearly 40 years after his death, the mark still distinguishes.
Utilitarianism is a system of ethics wherein "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong." This ethical system contends that the rightness or
wrongness of an action must be judged by its consequences.
The opening is truly nightmarish, not only in its perfectly executed child's bedroom horror but in a deep feeling of uncanny
wrongness that is something like the hideous, vivid incoherence of the worst dreams.
There's the plain
wrongness of discarded and dried-out Play-Doh (that bland brown it goes, gah), the entirely black masterpieces, and the half-done peg fairies that drive me to boiling point.
While he may have apologized for the part of his remarks where he compared people who engage in same-sex sexual activity as worse than animals, he has stood firm on the issue of the
wrongness of homosexual practice and same-sex marriage.
Embrace the
wrongness. Own your mistakes, embrace them.