Philosophers who elucidate 'is red' in terms of 'looks red' have the matter the wrong way round (Smart 1995).
Public discourse is expected to be within the bounds of decency and respect; language matters and the wrong word can incite high emotion.
Or perhaps "simple matter" is the wrong phrase.
"The development plans approach the matter from the wrong angle," said Drury.
That is not simply a matter of the wrong sort of help – such as unsaleable food or the polar tents, court shoes and G-strings sent by one charity to the survivors of the 2004 Asian tsunami.
Like a parent, it doesn't matter how wrong the child is, you stand with the child, then you sort it out in private at home.
And by denying the obvious, they only encourage attacks from the left--sending matters entirely in the wrong direction.
For the Somalis, matters have taken the wrong turn when 20 young men turned out missing in the Minneapolis area and three turned out dead.
But the root of the problem isn't Davidson; it's an SNL writers room that's toothless when it matters and ruthless for the wrong reasons.
