I have knocked heads with EV on this issue several times before.
He is a party of one here on FR, and apparently derives great personal satisfaction from his position on that snow-white pedestal of self-defined moral purity.
It's pointless to argue with him.
I just keep trying to get my mind around the logic that says saving lives now is a violation of principle, and I keep coming up with bupkis.
I was sort of hoping, he’d say something clear and profound.
But he didn’t.
It is pointless, when you continue to ignore the principled logic that our entire form of government and our claim to liberty rest upon.
A self defeating curse too many FReepers suffer from.
Tactics the science of securing an objective set by a strategy.
Strategy the overall planning for achieving a goal.
We win wars because we remember what the goal is and use every tactic possible to achieve it. We want to end abortion (goal/objective). We will seek to defund abortion mills (tactic) in the process making it harder to find a place to get an abortion (strategy). While the purists fight for the "perfect" solution to end abortion (our common goal) their tactic of not supporting small strategic steps because they aren't "perfect" causes nothing to happen and the pro-abortion forces continue to win.
We see this problem in resolving illegal immigration, fiscal issues and foreign policy. In a nutshell pursuit of the perfect kills the good tactical move.