Article snippet: Posted at 4:00 am on June 12, 2017 by Jim Jamitis I thought I was through being surprised at the nonsense otherwise smart people will support in this era of Trump. Not so, apparently. I saw a tweet earlier today that expressed one of the most ridiculous thoughts I’ve seen in some time. That didn’t surprise me; It’s Twitter, ridiculous thoughts are par for the course. What surprised me is how many otherwise non-ridiculous people seemed to buy in to it. I’m not going to single out the author of the tweet because 1) I’m not looking for a debate and 2) the tweet was not in any way unique. There is an epidemic of bad thinking on the right lately. Attributing it to one person would make it seem less of a problem than it truly is. In this particular case, the ridiculous claim in question was that principles are only a means to an end. Anyone who could say this and believe it — while actually understanding all the words they were using — is at best, the king (or queen) of cynics, and at worst, a complete sociopath. Principles are not a means to an end. Principles are those things you believe to be fundamentally true. If you can easily set them aside in order to attain a goal, they weren’t principles so much as they were postures. If your moral compass is only something you use to gauge what you can probably get away with, it’s not really a moral compass. It’s more like your shady lawyer and you are someone completely unworthy of trust. This latest parade of social media... Link to the full article to read more