What Does It Mean To Be Wrong

I can candidly say that Wrongology by Kathryn Schulz is an enlightening read. The author puts forward her case for wrongology – a complicated subject throwing light upon all facets of being wrong and at fault. Her foundation being that people have been wrong about being wrong to start with. It’s no doubt delightful to be right, it uplifts our ego and that in a way is crucial for our survival. Seemingly according to Kathryn Schulz even though being wrong may be embarrassing it is critical for our personal development. Error is a part of human nature and cannot be terminated. If our choices are wrong, what we have to do is to review those choices and learn from them, eventually making better ones. Therefore one should not be afraid of making a mistake or being wrong. Mistakes help us revise our understandings and help us

In her argument, she examines what it means to be wrong and why it is okay. She explains that is human nature to always want to be right because it makes us feel smart, responsible virtuous, safe. However, people often assume that being wrong means that there is something wrong with them, so they try their best to always be right. Schulz considers this to be a problem. She states that when people stop entertaining the idea that they may be wrong, unfortunate events can occur.

Hooks writes that today she would be considered a well-paid member of the “Professional-managerial class” she rarely thinks of herself in relations to that class. She explains how she was taught at an early age, by her grandparents and parents, to assume that

hooks felt hurt because her dad was a janitor. That was why it was so hard for her to look down on the working-class. Would it be easy for you to be able to suddenly look down upon your parents if they raised you to respect them? Because Stanford even accepted her into their institution, hooks felt as though she needed to act privileged. When she refused, the university and its students considered her rebellious; however, if she had not refused, she would have been ignoring and forgetting the values that she had learned from her parents.

Sitting on the porch with her sisters, hooks saw that “next to the white drivers in the front would be the dog and in the back seat the black worker.” This subtle image taught hooks the “interconnectedness of race and class,” and a demeaning message that white people placed animals ahead of African-Americans. Taking the high road, hooks attempted to spark conversation with her white neighbors; however, she was turned down and ridiculed. While trying to be friendly, hooks was told that “they came to this side of town to be rid of lazy blacks.” Time and time again racial and sexist tensions worked against Hooks, but instead of letting injustice get the best of her she made her porch a place of “antiracist resistance.” Hooks’ porch was an oasis in the male/white desert that dried up her life. On hooks’ porch she could experience the peace and joy she had as a child sitting on her porch with her sisters before her father came home. Hooks could have talked back to the white people that mocked her, but instead she chose the high road and conquered race with peace.

"Supposing they're wrong, could they be wrong? People make mistakes. Could they be wrong?” Begging the Question

Discuss the irony of the following statement and the situation which it describes on pg. 153. “…there fooled what I later realized was a sickeningly comic aspect of an unfunny situation: the men talked in near-whispers.”

Hook. In the book Beloved by Toni Morrison and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, the theme: Identity Results from the release of Repression through metaphors when Paul D talks about the tobacco tin, when Emily holds on to her father’s death, and both of them holding onto their past. When Paul D and Beloved get together his hypothetical tobacco tin is opened and he becomes humanized which allows him to develop his identity. When Emily’s father dies she holds onto his corpse and is unable to let the physical symbol of her past move on. Even though one symbol was physical and the other was hypothetical they were both willing to do what they needed to repress their past. With this in mind it is important to first discuss, the metaphor

The way Mrs. Rutter always watches Sandra and “glinting from the cushions” gives an uneasy feel towards her. When Kerry returns inside Mrs. Rutter begins her anecdote. He asks if she saw the plane come down and she chuckles, seeming to delight in the idea. She explains how her and her sister went to investigate the scene and was only going to get help if it was an allied plane. This alarms Kerry. Her twisted side becomes more apparent when she says, “We cheered, I can tell you” as they realized it was German. Sandra is alarmed and quips how awful it was, but Mrs. Rutter, who disregards her discomfort, abruptly interrupts her she is so involved in telling the story.

Hirsch expresses the scene in an interesting way by using techniques such as personification by stating, “A hook shot kisses the rim…” creating a romantic almost blissful feeling toward the whole ordeal. The

A quote from Mark and Bryon themselves, “That was then and this is now” (Hinton 158). Mark didn’t know right from wrong and Bryon couldn’t help him. Nobody can have a clear vision of of right and wrong because somebody might just think the opposite. When given the option, people will do what will work for them but it may not be the “right” choice. The idea that there is not always a right or wrong answer is arguable for the very reasons of people's morals, their upbringing, and perspective on their lives.

Through education and experience, people learn correctness results in injustice, correctness results in opportunity, and correctness results in fame. Although it is usually beneficial to be right, it is dangerous to be right when established authorities are wrong because authorities will do whatever it takes to prove they are right.

right and wrong share a very thin line. The right decision for some might be wrong for others and vice

that no one must do wrong. “…that to commit injustice is in every case bad and dishonorable for the person who does

I would like to explain this claim by using another example in another area of knowledge i.e. art. Take the example of Mona Lisa painting, some people find that she is actually looking at the viewer, some think that she is not looking at them, some find that she is crying in the painting and some picturize her as smiling. So all these viewers are right in their way, as we cannot blame anyone saying that no Mona Lisa is smiling or no Mona Lisa is crying or anything for that matter. This really depends on the perception, emotions and reasoning ability of the viewer. As, if the viewer, who is in a happy mood, may find her smiling and those viewers who are not in a good mood may find her crying. So it depends upon the state of mind of the person who is watching the painting at that time. In this situation reasoning is dominated by emotion.