People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don't much care about how well it works, just about how right it is... they may even like it better if it inflicts enough pain.
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
