At any time in life does two wrongs make a right?

Question

In many cases two wrongs or two negatives do not make a right. However this rule is not hard and fast, as in the example of this example is not 'not applicable'. The not in front of the not applicable changes the meaning from bears no relevancy to bears relevancy. Also if two negative numbers are multiplied by themselves they form a positive.

So is there any time in human affairs that two wrongs will equal a right? Please note that moral ambiguity is not able to be considered as right.

Serious answers only please.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I have a strange logical answer for this great question!!

If a wrong can make another wrong right, then how can we call it wrong?... the action that rights a wrong can only be called right in that context.

In the moral context, 'actions' are independently judged as right or wrong and there is no separate or different interpretation for 'reactions' or 'subsequent related actions'.... therefore if an action is wrong, then it can not be interpreted as right in the context of an earlier action to which this one may be a 'reaction' or a 'related action'.

Answer 2

Marriage isn't an completely non secular ceremony. There are religions which will enable same-intercourse marriage. Christianity isn't the top-all be-all of religion neither is it any style of government nor can or no longer it rather is see you later through fact the 1st replace is in place. To create a "separate yet equivalent" version of marriage is blatantly Unconstitutional and varieties criminal segregation. Your non secular perspectives serve rather no objective in attempting to make regulations to control all, notably people who don't have self belief as you think or carry on with your faith. non secular Marriage includes NO RIGHTS in any respect, those rights are obtained during the acquisition of a marriage License from the State in which you reside. BTW quoting Leviticus would infer which you reject the sacrifice of the Christ that grow to be made to get rid of those previous regulations, is this certainly the case? If no longer then Leviticus isn't a valid biblical stance from which you will argue.

Answer 3

Well, you really have to stretch your imagination to come up with a good example, but I'm sure there are instances where that might be true. The only mild example I can think of might be the actions of Robert DeNiro's character, Travis Bickle, in the movie Taxi Driver.

UPDATE: That's probably not the best example, because as another poster says, "What is 'wrong'?"

I think it would be more accurate to say it happens in the way of "lessons learned," or karma... whatever you want to call it.

Answer 4

At first I thought about what you said as a math equation. However just because in math/writing "two negatives make a positive" is true it doesn't mean that is true in life. I think the kind of balance your looking for exists in the statement itself. Do two wrongs make a right?

According to the balance theory and Newton's laws of motion for every "negative"/"wrong" there is a "positive"/"right". When Newton said "To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" I think he was trying to emphasize the relationship between all matter. So to answer the question "Do two wrongs make a right?", yes because for every wrong/negative there is a right/positive. Wrongs do indeed make rights.

Answer 5

Usually it seems that two wrongs make bigger wrongs... and to use math, if two negative numbers are added together they only form a larger negative... and this is the way that most bad things stack, they add onto each other.

Only in rare cases do two wrongs make a right, and its usually because one of the wrongs was more "postive" than the other... if you know what i mean.

Answer 6

how can moral ambiguity not be concidered as right...as everything is up for moral judgement...right?....morals are always amiguous...that is why this question is posed in the philosophy section...:)....so, to answer this question with moral ambiguity, i will pose a situation that you may interpret as you wish...where i think that two wrongs equal a right...possibly. i walk to 90% of my destinations....on many occassions, a car decides to look left to turn right without ever looking to the right to see if someone might be crossing the street....they usually almost hit me by inches....i usually give their car a nice swift kick wherever my foot lands...i look at the car as an unimportant piece of metal that has no feelings, although, the owner usually gets quite upset...i think that there is no reason to be upset...a dent does not hurt them...the car lost value by driving off the lot...to me there is no harm, but, morally, one would see that as an act of anger, which is wrong....so, there are possibly two wrongs accuring, which will stop to make a person think that they should LOOK BEFORE TURNING TO AVOID HITTING FAMILIES WITH THEIR GIGANTIC PIECES OF METAL this would be the right....right? or wrong? it is up to you.....EDIT: also, after reading some other responses, i might add, what is it with this man's will crap or mankind crap....i am not a man...what catagory do i fall....quit it with the patriarical language already, that is so old school...get with the new, people

Answer 7

Yes, I don't think there are absolutes. The world is full of enough variables that one cannot absolutely rule out anythng.However that is for circumstances to dictate and not man's will. If we take the character of Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment he did rid the world of one pawnbroker as practice to implement the same onto some bigger project and in a very miniscule way I suppose he did kill a woman who fed on the desparation of others with her own greed but in the process he lost compassion and empathy. No, such decisions should not be man's to made but just revealed by the laying out of circumstances

Answer 8

This question arises all the time in international affairs also..One nation thinks that another is making prohibited weapons and engages in war killing and maiming so many people. Is it right or wrong? War is evil. But can we avoid it totally?Even if a saint shoud lead a country can he do without an army?

Answer 9

under some circumstances two wrongs can make a right but the conditions have to involve extremely high temperatures and pressure such that existed in the big bang

Answer 10

as in math, negative plus negative is a negative, and it is negative times negative that gives a positive...

in life, one can just add up one negative after another, thus making things just more negative, and never close to positive.

I believe every actions adds up to other actions, but they never multiply with other actions as in the mathematical operation, thus life actions that are negative tends just to add, and never multiply, and the law of addition of negatives tells that the answer always gives a more negative answer...