title: Negative Privilege
abstract: Negative PrivilegeDetienne's examples suggest that comparison is called off where something seen as uniquely good is at stake, where there is a danger of relativizing some jealously guarded claim to national or cultural dignity.But a similar resistance to comparison arises where the uniquely bad is thought to lurk.The permissibility of comparisons is presented as an epistemic matter (a matter of knowing what is and is not comparable) but is more accurately described as ethical (a matter of knowi
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