Two wrongs make a right.
Hell yeah they do, because a negative multiplied by another negative equals a positive.
A wrong is a negative. A right is a positive.
I mean, why can't we just multiply that shit? Y'know what I'm saying dawg?
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Not at all. Firstly, 'negative' and 'positive' do not mean the same thing when describing actions as they do when describing numbers. But I'll play along. Let's go ahead and treat actions as numbers, and assign a value of 1 to a "positive" action and -1 to a "negative" action. So, if we commit two "negative" actions, -1 + -1 = -2. This can also be expressed as -1*2=-2. Now, if a negative number is multiplied by another negative number, the result is positive, however as shown below a second action does not 'multiply' the original action, but is rather another action in addition to the prior action. An action can be 'multiplied' per se by repeating that same action a given number of times, but the number of times an action can be performed is limited to positive integers; that is, one or more. An action cannot be performed a negative number of times, nor can an action be performed zero times (as if it is performed zero times, it is never performed at all). Now, it could be said that a negative action and a positive action cancel one another out, so long as we're assigning the same value to both actions; -1 + 1 = 0. But two wrongs can never and will never make a right. Side: No
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