I liked this passage because it is a question I have often faced and a question that most people don't really know the answer to, even though they exercise their opinion of the right thing to do every day.
I have realized that it is not my place to make people act right, or to punish them or condemn them for doing wrong. It is my place to try to inform them of their wrong doing, but not to be a judge. God, and only God, can judge us.
This passage answers the question in an equally insightful way in that it points out how unwise it is to hate people and to punish or retaliate against people who do wrong. When we realize we are all in essence a part of God and therefore one being, we see that it is stupid to hurt eachother, even if we believe it is justified, because we are only hurting ourselves further. As the saying goes, two wrongs don't make a right.
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You summed this up perfectly with the "two wrongs don't make a right." I think that that was what I was trying to say, but you said it more simply and to the point. I also agree that it is not our place to make people act right or even to punish them. Wouldn't we be running around always correcting or punishing others if that were true!
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