One cannot simply blindly apply first principles to every situation, for this ends in a dogmatic and false absolutism.... This is, for example, what creeps people out about Ron Paul. He says plenty of things — derived from first principles embodied in the Constitution — that make perfect sense. However, he always goes too far, in that half of what he says results from a blind application of first principles, irrespective of empirical reality. Just so! Ron Paul doesn't so much think or reason; he mainly doctrinalizes. I do not believe he is in very good contact with actual Reality....
He's a really "horizontal" kind of guy.... IMHO
Thanks so much, dear Matchett-PI, for the link to another thought-provoking article from GagDad Bob!