The Shot Heard 'Round America

 In the same way one can do anything 'on principle' and avoid all personal responsibility.

People pull to pieces 'on principle' what they admire personally, which is nonsensical, for while it is true that everything creative is latently polemical, since it has to make room for the new which it is bringing into the world, a purely destructive process is nothing and its principle is emptiness - so what does it need space for? But modesty, repentance and responsibility cannot easily strike root in ground where everything is done 'on principle'.

The political left hate the rest of us on principle.

Ergo, as the late socialist Herbert Marcuse reminds his students, error has no rights - and you are permitted to do the worst things on principle to those individuals - yes, even hate them! - so long as you can convince yourself that they are wrong.

Once you feel it, that sense that they hate you for the crime of disagreement? On principle, they can bend the rules to get to the man.

On principle, their violence is excusable while resistance to that violence is fascism.

On principle, any means necessary becomes a vital function of Our Democracy in the face of extremism - and anything that even questions such tactics is, by definition, extreme. 

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