My mother always said 'two wrongs don't make a right'. To me, that means my actions stand alone. It doesn't matter what someone else did that was worse or whether they did somethin... moreMy mother always said 'two wrongs don't make a right'. To me, that means my actions stand alone. It doesn't matter what someone else did that was worse or whether they did something to provoke me, I am responsible for myself.
Val Patterson of Salt Lake City used his own 2012 obit as a confessional: "as it turns out I AM the guy who stole the safe from Motor View Drive Inn back in June 1971".