- Fearing Fear Itself: "The biggest danger terrorism poses to our society comes not from the direct harm inflicted, but from the wrong-headed responses it can inspire." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/opinion/fearing-fear-itself.html?emc=edit_th_20151116&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=66729662 91 comments politics
- The price is wrong — “Regulators must always ask the question of any healthy society if there are oligopolistic pricing powers in the sector”: equities manager https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/sep/06/supermarket-price-inquiry-latest-woolworths-coles-aldi-choice-study 7 comments economics
- Marx’s idea that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong. [Manvir Singh] https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-primitive-communism-is-as-seductive-as-it-is-wrong 749 comments philosophy
- What Industrial Societies Get Wrong About Childhood https://www.sapiens.org/culture/children-social-learning/ 4 comments anthropology
- What's Wrong With America? "The Despair Is Smoldering in Society" https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/what-s-wrong-with-america-the-despair-is-smoldering-in-society-a-7db32b9d-cea0-425e-b417-51eab17d7aff 24 comments economy
- The Security for Secretary of Hong Kong has been slammed for interfering with the judiciary for saying in a China television interview that it is “crucial” for local courts to come up with “directional and authoritative” rulings in order to help the society distinguish the right from the wrong. https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1494037-20191123.htm?sptabchangeable=0 3 comments worldnews
- GOP conspiracy about FBI 'secret society' wasn't wrong — aliens have confirmed it http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-met-fbi-secret-society-huppke-20180125-story.html 15 comments politics
- What is really wrong with India and Indian society? What is being done to lift India out of the 3rd world? What needs to be done? http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD/countries 56 comments india
- Men’s rights activists, gathering to discuss all the ways society has done them wrong http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mens-rights-activists-gathering-to-discuss-all-the-ways-society-has-done-them-wrong/2014/06/30/a9310d96-005f-11e4-8fd0-3a663dfa68ac_story.html 59 comments politics
- The "Majority Opinion" Is An Illusion. The problem is, history has shown that at pivotal moments in a society the “majority opinion” is usually WRONG. http://www.alt-market.com/articles/1295-the-qmajority-opinionq-is-an-illusion 10 comments politics
- Delhi bus gang rape: 'What is going wrong with our society?' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/19/delhi-bus-gang-rape 5 comments india
- My coworker at the MD Historical Society thinks nobody is interested in our images. Help me show her she's wrong! http://mdhsphotographs.tumblr.com 40 comments history
- The Very Fabric of Society is Breaking Down Around Us. What the Hell is There Left to Believe In? It's all gone wrong. Our belief in everything has been shattered by a series of shock revelations that have shaken our core to its core. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/13/charlie-brooker-corrupt-institutions-faith 745 comments worldnews
- Supporting Uzma Khan's attackers is everything wrong with (a few people in) our society https://images.dawn.com/news/1185331/actor-uzma-khan-files-complaint-against-two-women-for-instigating-violence-fir-registered 30 comments pakistan
- Something is fundamentally wrong with a society okay with corporate bailouts for a global pandemic but says no to a candidate trying to get a healthcare bailout for its citizens (M4A) https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/11/oil-bailout-trump-125949 8 comments worldnews
- Trump takes credit for decline in cancer deaths. The American Cancer Society says he's wrong. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/politics/cancer-deaths-trump-fact-check-bn/index.html 4 comments politics
- Trump takes credit for decline in cancer deaths. The American Cancer Society says he's wrong. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/politics/cancer-deaths-trump-fact-check-bn/index.html 3 comments politics
- Trump takes credit for decline in cancer deaths. The American Cancer Society says he's wrong https://us.cnn.com/2020/01/09/politics/cancer-deaths-trump-fact-check-bn/index.html 139 comments politics
- The unbearable wrongness of William Barr: Secularism doesn't destroy society or moral order https://www.salon.com/2019/11/09/the-unbearable-wrongness-of-william-barr/ 164 comments politics
- TIL about Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri man who who was hung to death on live TV because an Indian court deemed “the collective conscience of society will only be satisfied if capital punishment is awarded to the offender." It is now largely believed he was wrongly convicted. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/10/hanging-afzal-guru-india-democracy 142 comments pakistan
- Budget to die for: Qatar launches $1bn Prophet Mohammed film series. The series will be filmed in English, but also translated into several languages "to correct the wrong image Western societies have of Islam." http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/prophet-mohammed-biopic-budget-372/ 4 comments worldnews
- We don’t read poetry. Understand why and you understand everything wrong with us as a society. https://medium.com/@mattw1596/we-dont-read-poetry-understand-why-and-you-understand-everything-wrong-with-us-as-a-society-c1960cacfb50 264 comments philosophy
- Adapting to climate change: We're doing it wrong | Study authors argue that society should focus less on how individuals respond to such climate issues as wildfires, and instead figure out what it takes to inspire collective action that will protect humans from climate catastrophes on a larger scale https://phys.org/news/2020-02-climate-wrong.html 24 comments worldnews
- A women and her 4 year old child gets burned alive for less than US$1. And this is the ONLY reference I find to it in the entire South Africa's media. THIS is what is wrong with our society. http://www.heraldlive.co.za/fight-over-r8-sparks-inferno/ 3 comments worldnews
- As reddit continues to realize the potential political influence they/we have, here's something else wrong with today's society... http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2011/07/19/the-ethics-of-unpaid-internships 9 comments politics
- "There's something severely wrong with a society whose workforce's career demands preoccupy to the point of fatal negligence." How do you forget about you own child and leave him to roast? http://intershame.com/on/kesen_hu/ 8 comments reddit.com
- From the Republicans who were wrong about EV-RY-THING in the middle east: "The fact is that, as a man of the hard Left, Obama is more comfortable with a totalitarian Islamic regime than he would be with a free Iranian society." http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/06/obama-derangement-syndrome-watch 16 comments politics
- This is How Stupidly Superficial Society Is and Don't Dare Tell me I'm Wrong http://www.polykicks.com/this-is-how-stupidly-superficial-society-is-and-dont-dare-tell-me-im-wrong/ 21 comments worldnews
- New research by IMF concludes "trickle down economics" is wrong: "the benefits do not trickle down" -- "When the top earners in society make more money, it actually slows down economic growth. On the other hand, when poorer people earn more, society as a whole benefits." https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2015/sdn1513.pdf 14 comments business
- New research by IMF concludes "trickle down economics" is wrong: "the benefits do not trickle down" -- "When the top earners in society make more money, it actually slows down economic growth. On the other hand, when poorer people earn more, society as a whole benefits." https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2015/sdn1513.pdf 54 comments economy
- Five myths about privacy "Even if a person is doing nothing wrong, in a free society, that person shouldn’t have to justify every action that government officials might view as suspicious. A key component of freedom is not having to worry about how to explain oneself all the time." http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-privacy/2013/06/13/098a5b5c-d370-11e2-b05f-3ea3f0e7bb5a_story.html?tid=rssfeed 417 comments politics
- Stallman: "Record companies...use smear terms such as 'piracy' and 'theft' to imply that sharing is wrong...Sharing is friendship; to attack friendship is to attack the basis of society." http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2007/03/13/let_free_music_files_ring/ 123 comments reddit.com
- Government paternalism: "Apart from limiting individual choice and preventing individuals from learning, history suggests time and again that the conventional wisdom prevalent in society is wrong. Since governments typically enforce the conventional wisdom, the consequences could be disastrous." http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/04/201241593247850533.html 6 comments politics
- Do watch this video of a man talking about things that are wrong with us as a society https://www.youtube.com/watch?amp%3Bv=6MYamJn6gsw&t=997 3 comments india
- "The Society of the Spectacle" reading club starts soon (~100 pages) - Have you ever felt that something is fundamentally wrong with our world? http://www.reddit.com/r/readingsots 24 comments philosophy
- ": "If parents can't see anything wrong in dressing up their children in 'Future Wag' T-shirts and letting them wear make-up, high heels and 'mini-me' sexy clothing, then something is intensely wrong in our society." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15819369 6 comments worldnews
- My beautiful wife looked up from her laptop and said something to the effect of “WTF is wrong with our society that ‘hot girl-on-girl’ action is practically shoved down our throats while gays have to fight tooth and nail to get married?” (video) http://donklephant.com/2009/12/10/hot-girl-on-girl-action/ 52 comments politics
- These recent graduates have done everything society told them to do. They’ve worked hard, kept their noses clean and gotten a good education. They are ready and anxious to work. If we’re having trouble finding employment for even these kids, then we’re doing something profoundly wrong. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/opinion/31herbert.html?hp 29 comments politics
- These recent graduates have done everything society told them to do. They’ve worked hard, kept their noses clean and gotten a good education. They are ready and anxious to work. If we’re having trouble finding employment for even these kids, then we’re doing something profoundly wrong. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/opinion/31herbert.html?hp 10 comments economy
- RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat proposes legal system based on ‘ethos of society’. "In our society, 'dharma' was placed highest as it stands on the pillars of truth, unlike in the Western society which believed that the king is supreme and could do no wrong", RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said. http://indianexpress.com/article/india/rss-chief-mohan-bhagwat-proposes-legal-system-based-on-ethos-of-society-4837559/ 7 comments india