the rights and wrongs
Definition
› the details of who or what is fair or unfair: I don't care about the rights and wrongs of the matter - I just want you both to stop arguing.Morality and rules of behaviour
(Definition of the rights and wrongs from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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