two negatives make a positive, y don't two wrongs make a right?

Answer 1

The flip answer would be: two negatives only make a positive when they're being multiplied. But when two negatives are added, they make another negative. Therefore, whatever wrongs you're committing must be being added, not multiplied. ;-)

There might be an answer that isn't quite as sarcastic, but the margin of Yahoo Answers is too narrow to contain it... ;-)

Answer 2

Because juxtaposition of acts is not the same thing as multiplication.

Although, if you really had to ask the question, you probably won't understand that answer, so I'll elaborate. The basic idea is that whether "two negatives make a positive" depends on how you combine them - if you are multiplying two negative numbers this is true, but if you are adding two negative numbers it is false: -1 + -1 = -2, which is not positive. Now doing two wrong things, one after the other (that is, juxtaposing two wrong acts) doesn't really correspond to any well-defined mathematical function (this has mainly to do with the fact that morality is ambiguous), but if you asked most people which mathematical function best approximates the moral value of two acts done in succession, each having their own moral value, most people would say that addition is a better representation than multiplication, and it follows from that that the moral value of two wrongs is in general a bigger wrong, not a right.

Answer 3

Yes its true that if you multiply the two negatives the answer is always positive and it is a law already and nothing can change it but wrong is still wrong, whatever the reason is and wherever you are that's the reality that you need to face.

Answer 4

2 negatives make a positive and thats true but to say that two wrongs dont make a right is not right .simply because theres a diffarence between math and life !

Answer 5

My question to u is- If one wright makes one wrong, what do two wrights make? Send me ur answer. By the way, don't u know that two positives make one positive. So, its like that.

Answer 6

I have a different theory (for what it's worth):
We, the human society, decide what's right and what's wrong.
Two "wrongs" can actually be perceived as right if both, the wrong do-er and the observer share the same social or ethical standard, so neither would see anything wrong with it.....

Answer 7

-(-3) = + 3 You are right
(-2) + (-3) = -5 You are wrong.

I have to paint a wall yellow.
First error: I buy green paint.
Second error: I pay too much.
You are wrong again: you do not get a yellow wall.
Th

Answer 8

one statement is math, the other ethics.

Answer 9

Multiplication of two like signs is positive

Sign Rules of Multiplicatiion

(+)(+) = (+)

(-)(-) = (+)

(-)(+) = (-)

(+)(-) = (-)

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Division of two like signs is positive

(+)/(+) = (+)

(-)/(-) = (+)

(+)/(-) = (-)

(-)/(+) = (-)