Two wrongs don’t make a write or maybe that should be right
By zevi770 · February 6, 2012
I think it was my mother who first told it to me in nursery school “two wrongs don’t make a right.”
He hit me first; two wrongs don’t make a right!
But it is only now, thirty something years later, that I fully comprehend that statement.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, always sounded like “don’t hit that person,” but it didn’t really answer the question.
But she or he hit me first?!
In other words, the basic premise of humanity is, a hit deserves a hit.
Sure, I may not hit you first, but if you hit me first, well then, not only should I, but I must, no, I will do everything in my power to take revenge.
Sweet revenge!
You see revenge, is sweet.
For we humans exist in a silly seesaw model, “I like you, but if you offend me, than I must take revenge to restore my honor.”
Pride and shame; the very hallmark of who we are.
This happens in families, in marriages, in school playgrounds and currently is playing out, with Arabs trying to destroy Israel God- forbid, to feel better about their low self-esteem.
The reason for Germany attacking Jews and the world!
The reason for many other wars.
But let’s think about this for a moment.
Do two wrongs make a right?
The answer is that it depends.
If honor is what my life is all about (in other words, I am child and insecure and hence must restore my honor otherwise I don’t know how to carry on, for my identity ego and self image are so fragile that immediacy of revenge is all that matters; hence its release of the pent of pressure of not taking the revenge – hence sweet revenge;) but if I ma mature, say, if my child says something rude to me, will I get upset?