No, it turns out that if you do that, it's hard to come up with definition of multiplication that people will accept. That's why (-2)x(-3)=6 is inevitable. The

No, it turns out that if you do that, it's hard to come up with definition of multiplication that people will accept. That's why (-2)x(-3)=6 is inevitable. The only "easy" thing is writing down an equation like (-2)x(-3)=6. That's not what we're doing, though. We're defining how multiplication works, and (-2)x(-3) is just an example.