buttercup
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Might makes right" or "Might is right" is an aphorism on the origin of morality, with both descriptive and prescriptive senses. Descriptively, it asserts that a society's view of right and wrong is determined by those in power, with a meaning similar to "History is written by the victors".
You didn't cite a source, but anyway, that's similar to the definition I posted earlier, from Oxford dictionary.
Again, the question is, do you actually agree with that idea?
By that logic, anyone can trample all over anyone else, and as long as they get away with it, what they did was morally right.