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In response to
"what good are principles at all if don't hold to them? -- nm"
by
pigby
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Depends. Different principles have different degrees of importance.
Posted by
TWuG
Apr 24 '09, 13:01
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For instance I tend to follow traffic laws on the principle of obey the law being a good thing.
But I also value human life and would violate traffic laws to save a life.
Perhaps, and this is not intended as an apology for the Admin's actions, but a potential explanation, it is considered more important to bring a Muslim country into the EU than it is to get hung up on an event 100 years in the past.
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