It's the most perverse aspect of King's novel.
He finds "a perverse aspect to all these questions asked Muslims, which are not coherent," he said, but "liberate and dignify existing racism" and "stigmatize Muslims".
Indeed, the definition of enlightened and courageous policy action had taken on a perverse aspect: statesmanship now consisted of cancelling any and all previously enacted policy measures which would cause too little red ink.
That is the perverse aspect - the news networks that claim to be trying to inform the public have virtually no coverage on what works and what doesn't keep people safe before a crime has occurred.
"I wouldn't want to join the kind of rhetoric that says something like celibacy is a perverse aspect of sexuality," Petro, the Boston University professor, said when I asked him what he thought of the relationship between celibacy and secrecy regarding sex.
A good first step would be a fresh look at perverse incentives (such as aspects of federal flood insurance policy) that end up prompting people to build in harm's way in floodplains and coastal zones.
Negative and perverse incentives exist in many aspects of healthcare in Kurdistan - from its funding, organization and management to delivery of care.
Even constructive aspects of the Act could have perverse consequences, unless the rules are subject to sophisticated re-examination as the finance world develops.
