do two wrongs make a right?

I agree we all have done it at one point or another. However, I would have hoped that our ADULT politicians would be better than that. But they are not. And not just politicians, but the media, people here, people everywhere! It does not fix anything and in my opinion just makes things worse. I really am sick of hearing everything that Bush did wrong. We all know, lets move on and fix it. Lets stop making these bad choices and learn from past mistakes. No President here has ever been "perfect" nor Prime Minister or King even. Time to move on.

Oh the whole US VS THEM thing. I find it sad. Why? Because they buy into the whole thing. That is what each party wants...rabbid followers who will defend them no matter what and attack the other side no matter what. IT is stupid. No two wrongs don't make a right. It is also stupid for people to make excuses for bad behavior done by politicans...no matter what letter is beside their name. But I see it all the time...I have seen people scream and throw a fit when a politican from the "other" party does something wrong...but when a politican from "their" party does it...well that is perfectly ok. They will find a way ....any way to try and justify it. Hypocrites. they play into both parties hands. They WANT supporters that will support, defend and fight for them no matter what they do. They take advantage of it. those people are being used. I don't know if they don't realize it or if they think it is ok that they are being used. Each party plays the whole "we are teh good guys" and "they are the bad guys" thing and people buy into it. When in reality...neither party is the "good guy". Both are the "bad guy" and they have the american public fooled into fighting for them. Think about it...what are you fight for? COrruption, greed, double dealings, back door deals...I mean really...take a long hard look at them. Most of them are not good people..most are nto even DECENT people. So why fight for them? Why enable them?

Somebody has to really, really hurt me or really tick me off, to get me to reply anywhere near in like kind. Mostly I just avoid conflict and let the idiot think they've won.

I can't think of any specifics when it comes to my participation in this kind of behavior...but I'm not ruling it out because I'm as human as anyone else. I do find this tactic to be very unproductive in any discussion because it attempts to justify one wrong by throwing the focus on another wrong. When that happens it's very difficult, if not impossible, to find a middle ground.

There are two subjects that certainly bring out the worst in many people. Politics and religion. Personally, I'd like to see the political parties abolished, so that people would (maybe) really listen to what leaders are saying, not just agreeing or disagreeing because of the party they belong to. The battle here over healthcare is ridiculous. Those with health insurance are fighting against those who do not. I don't understand the logic of that. How can religious right-to-lifers on one hand push for eliminating abortions, while at the same time condemning others for lack of medical coverage?

Responding to a difference of opinion by launching a personal attack is entirely too common. Instead of providing a rational counterpoint, the response takes the form of "You are just a..." --fill in the blank with liberal, socialist, communist, atheist, neo-Nazi,racist, or whatever, as if that is some kind of answer. It is as if the response to "Your shoe is untied" was a diatribe about your ancestry. Sometimes, though, it is so absurd it is just funny and pathetic. Like the guy who yelled at a town meeting that the government needed to keep its hands off his--Social Security. Maintaining a sense of humor is crucial.

I probably have done it, but do not remember any specifics. It is not very adult or logical to do this. Two wrongs do not make a right, and actually it is much more than two wrongs, I am sure. We forget that we are all part of the same country and should all be trying to make it better.

And this is new stuff? Politics has long been held as a topic that will bring out the worst in people - along with religion. Rarely does it go to extremes. Citing that it can is its own brand of fearmongering, in a sense. I think everyone is aware of that. And to date, barring the sporadic incident of reported (with no evidence) insulting slurs and spitting, and a few cases of union thugs beating a man senseless and some pro-immigration thugs beating someone senseless, nothing is very harmful but the loosely thrown, often inaccurate rhetoric. In politics, the bad behavior excusing more or being used to point out hypocrisy is just a way of affirming your side and denegrating someone else's. Some folks are very passionate about what they believe or are told to believe. But, just as your previous discussion about hate-filled right-wingers waging war on everyone, I do not see disagreement--even harsh disagreement--as particularly harmful. I also don't see some sudden uprise in weak attempts to justify bad behavior. I think maybe you're just paying more attention these days. Sure, something could erupt. But something can always erupt. Damn. I recently watched some videos of people throwing fits at fast food restaurants because of the long waits in line and receiving the wrong order. Some guy punched a 16 year old girl and another attempted to assult the register worker. That's just as many incidents as the thick political climate has given us. Should we be wary of going into McDonald's now? Personally, on the bad behavior thing, I've certainly cited someone else's to prove a point. I always find it helpful when someone's being a hypocrite. And if anyone can call me on the same, I fully expect them to.

I am not sure. I mean, we were taught that "two wrongs don't make a right". Then we go to school, and our English teachers tell us that two negatives make a positive. Once we finally get that concept, our Math teachers tell us that sometimes two negatives make a positive, but sometimes they just make another negative. It is all very confusing! What was the question again?

Why are we identifying any fiscal or political decision with a person like Obama or Bush? A hundred years down the lane such passionate beliefs would make no sense. Like hardly anybody knows who was the president of the United States during the great depression or even the World War I. Moreover, we outsiders would always be looking at it as America has this policy or the US tried this policy. If it succeeded, why cant we kind of approach to any steps taken in hte US. We are not going to say Bush succeeded with this, or Obama succeeded with that. It is America - the nation! Now coming to two wrongs make a right - no. Each is to be viewed independently of the other.

People must learn to not to confuse between the behavioral studies and physics. No matter whose side won there will be still conflict. People will just keep doing the wrong things specially the fanatics and the hard headed ones. People will keep looking for people to blame except for themselves I admit I started it all I made them all do it. negative + negative = positive, sperm + sperm = makes a gay and egg + sperm = makes a man acknowledge by the bible

Being an awkward b*stard, I'd question the question. What is "wrong" and what is "right"? My own area of (limited) expertise is the Russian revolution. When the reds won the civil war, they committed many atrocities against the devastated white armies, and the civilian population - however, those who carried out the atrocities fully believed that they were doing the "right" thing. After all, how can you build a workers' paradise whilst bourgeois counter-revolutionaries are still alive? I'd question the extremes to which the Soviets went (as a bit of a wuss, myself), but not their essential point: truth is relative and "right" depends on your ideological viewpoint. So, I pretty much take it as given that republicans and tories are always wrong - because of the underlying ideas which inform their sense of "right". Even if they came up with a decent policy or two, it would be wrong, because it would be informed by an ideology that is essentially malevolent. But then, I'm a stubborn kinda guy.

No, two wrongs don't make a right. It's just sometimes it's difficult to keep your cool when tempers start flaring, then things are said that shouldn't have been said.

yes it can happen,that two wrongs can make one right!very times it has hppened!

Politicians are all liars and why do we bother listening to them anymore is beyond me. We all know they're full of it, corrupt to the core and yet, they all go, YAY the king is here (or queen, or whatever you call your guy at the top). Here its scandal after scandal and yet the big dip goes in front of the camera and tells everybody that all is well and the other side if full of it and of course the other side will do the same. So, ONE bad, usually cancels another one for the simple reason that people will believe or listen to the LAST person who said something and then it all starts all over again. There is no democracy anymore and if anyone is trying to tell you that you live in a democratic country, slap them hard on the back of the head to wake them up.