Is one wrong answer more wrong?

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sure one is more wrong.

if a cashier overcharges you a dollar, and your buddy 2 dollars,

did one of you get overcharged more?

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He gets overcharged more, but that doesn't mean the cashier was "more wrong" in his case. In fact, he may have been "less wrong" by some standards. What if your true total is $.75, while your buddy's total is $214.99?

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To take this a step further you could also say what if the cashier gave one of you an extra $10 and the other an extra $20? It was the same mistake, one extra bill unaccounted for but the damage the mistake has caused is not proportional to the physical act of making the mistake.