NationStates Jolt Archive


- + - = thumbs up

Kroblexskij
01-02-2005, 20:51
Two wrongs DO make a right

2 examples

-X + -Y = +Z

a man created a button that would destroy the world (wrong)
I dropped it and broke it ( Wrong)

but surely thats good

so when someone says two wrongs dont make a right, or hard work never killed anyone , tell them to read this.
Personal responsibilit
01-02-2005, 20:54
Two wrongs DO make a right

2 examples

-X + -Y = +Z

a man created a button that would destroy the world (wrong)
I dropped it and broke it ( Wrong)

but surely thats good

so when someone says two wrongs dont make a right, or hard work never killed anyone , tell them to read this.

Perhaps it should read, 2 evils don't make righteousness. As for the dropping and breaking it, I'm not sure I'd classify that as "wrong".
Nsendalen
01-02-2005, 20:56
Two wrongs don't make a right.

Two wrongs can make a preferable outcome, however :)
Kroblexskij
01-02-2005, 21:05
Perhaps it should read, 2 evils don't make righteousness. As for the dropping and breaking it, I'm not sure I'd classify that as "wrong".

well the guy would be pissed off
Personal responsibilit
01-02-2005, 21:16
well the guy would be pissed off
Does that make it wrong? Just because someone hits me when I run a red light and I get pissed off, doesn't mean it was wrong for him to procede through a green light does it?
Technocratic Nations
01-02-2005, 21:16
Two wrongs might not make a right, but three lefts do!

Also,
-X + -Y = +Z
is only true if
A) X and Y are negative, or the one with a greater absolute value is negative;
or B) Z is negative.

I think you mean
-X*-Y=+Z
Personal responsibilit
01-02-2005, 21:18
Two wrongs might not make a right, but three lefts do!

Actually 1 left can do the trick depending on the angle of the turn.
Independent Homesteads
01-02-2005, 21:40
-X + -Y = +Z



no it doesnt.

-4 + -3 = -7

perhaps you mean -4 x -3 = 12