What is wrong with this sentence?
Francis Sedgemore, Friday 30 September 2011 at 15:39 UTC
From Norm, this afternoon…
“A couple of days ago a discussion took place on Twitter about whether one can differentiate amongst absolute moral wrongs, such that one might judge some of them worse than others.”
Clue: it has nothing to do with Professor Geras’ skill as a philosopher.
Feed the writer! 
Friday 30 September 2011 at 16:08 UTC
“Differentiate between”, not “amongst”, right?
Friday 30 September 2011 at 16:11 UTC
That is but a trivial error, of no real consequence. Can you not spot the absolute howler, Frau Professor Doktor?
Friday 30 September 2011 at 16:57 UTC
Can one have much of a discussion of this nature on Twitter has always been my question.
Not sure yet.
Friday 30 September 2011 at 17:12 UTC
…of any nature.
Saturday 1 October 2011 at 10:26 UTC
So we have a new category of “Twitter skeptics”?
Or are we all just “Twitter denialists”?
http://www.capstrat.com/insights/blog/confessions-of-a-twitter-skeptic/
Sy Taffel and others are talking about “the phenomena of ‘walled gardens in the global village’” at the Bristol Watershed soon … a genuine meat-space event, I gather!
http://mediaecologies.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/mcluhans-message/
Saturday 1 October 2011 at 11:42 UTC
Ach, that was a good one, Francis.
Saturday 1 October 2011 at 23:34 UTC
Global village, or universal suburb?
Sunday 2 October 2011 at 12:33 UTC
Cyber-ghettos of differently abled monkeys, more like.
Thursday 6 October 2011 at 14:24 UTC
If they’re absolute moral wrongs (although that in itself is a vague phrase) then they’re not susceptible to differentiation by ranking.
Thursday 6 October 2011 at 14:30 UTC
That is one interpretation, though Norm doesn’t share it.
But whatever, that is not the point I was making (which has nothing to do with Norm’s argument). I was referring to the oxymoron within the above sentence. Shameless Twitter-bashing, if you like.