I know it has been said that two wrongs don’t make a right, but do two rights give you a pass to do a wrong thing?  Wait now…I am thinking that is called penance (hmmm…that is when the right things come after the wrong thing…never mind).

I was thinking about this today as I hit potholes and maladjusted ice tracks around town.  Prior to today, I was fairly sure I would need an alignment to address the damage a few dozen close encounters with uneven road had caused to my right front tire.  Today, it seemed like I repeatedly had issues with my left front tire.  That is when it came to me – perhaps if the close encounters were balanced out between the tires I wouldn’t need the alignment after all.  That is what the world is all about right – balance?

Give and take, tit for tat, maintaining equilibrium…oh yeah, I am pretty sure that balance is a core tenet in our sense of what is right and sensible.  So I ask again, if you do two rights do you have a pass to do a wrong thing?  Does this work into the universe’s notion of balance? Does this work into humanity’s sense of balance?

I think it may on the black and white assessment of the written word, but not in the more amorphous area where bad actions can have far-reaching consequences that greatly overwhelm a hundred right actions.  Darn it anyway – back to behavin’…but, I am still going to try to self-align my car. 😉

Day six hundred and twenty-seven of the new forty – obla di obla da

Ms. C