Two wrongs don't make a right
[1] The phrase "two wrongs infer one right" appears in a poem dated to 1734, published in The London Magazine.Accusing another of not practicing what they preach, while appropriate in some situations,[a] does not in itself invalidate an action or statement that is perceived as contradictory.He also states that one should be careful not to use this ambiguity as an excuse to recklessly violate ethical rules.[3] Conservative journalist Victor Lasky wrote in his book It Didn't Start With Watergate that, while two wrongs do not make a right, if a set of immoral things are done and left unprosecuted, this creates a legal precedent.[4] An orient star led, thro' his blind- Side, to a prize his eye of mind: The lightning said, its he; in Spight Of fate two wrongs infer one right.