I’ve never seen any correlation between how willing someone is to stick to their principles and how good those principles are.
OK. My experience is people stick to the values they hold dear and those tend to be ones they've given some thought to.
Giving thought to principles and those principles being "good" or realistic have nothing to do with each other. I don't want to bring up obvious examples but there are tons of examples where principles with a great deal of thought have been clearly destructive. I cannot believe the kind of childish simplistic thinking going on in this thread
You don’t think that ideas being more considered means they’re more likely to be worthy of having?
> I cannot believe the kind of childish simplistic thinking going on in this thread
Yes.
Uh do you really want me to spoon feed you the obvious examples of people with strongly held opinions devastating large swathes of the world? Clearly their ideas were very well considered except they're not particularly "worthy of having"
The counter examples don’t disprove the effect. Yes we’ve had long considered ideas like communism that have resulted in the deaths of more than a hundred million people, no that does not disprove the notion that on average ideas that are more considered are of higher value that ideas that are not considered.
For those willing to stick by their principles, we should also see if they stick their landing.
You may see principles, but I just see ego.
Hang on to your ego.
Didn't realize authoritarianism is a principle we really should be rewarding.