Thursday 23 February 2012

Two wrongs never make one right.

Two wrongs never make one right is an English saying meaning an evil act cannot be corrected with more evil. If as human species can abide on the biblical saying (Golden Rule) "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." I believe we wouldn't be murdering each other in the name of justice or abortion as I believe none want to be murdered.

In the realm of mathematics two negatives when added together become a greater negative. A positive when added to a negative serves to overcome the negative. if the positive is greater then the results will always be positive. The realm of morality and ethics have an addictive property similar to mathematics. Jorge Orwell once wrote "it was curious; but till that moment I had never realised what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we are alive."

In this quote Orwell brings out the emotion of knowing that what is being executed may seem a monster, but the fact remains the prisoner is still a human being. Simultaneously, if we let people who have done serious crime walk free they will be encouraged to do it again. However man to man is unjust, also capitalising on someones wrong doings doesn't justify murder. We all not saints, we make mistakes everyday simultaneously we expect other to forgive us. With this am not perpetuating crime but look at things on both sides of the coin. What if a person is wrongly accused? and result executed. How can we justify that? Can we bring back the lost soul?






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