he’d known from the very beginning, that if he stepped outside his ethics whenever there was a reason, the end result wouldn’t be good.
-- HPMoR: 82
Or to put it another way: Ends Don’t Justify Means (Among Humans)
Related:
There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.
-- Uncritical Supercriticality
-- HPMoR: 82
Or to put it another way: Ends Don’t Justify Means (Among Humans)
Related:
-- Uncritical Supercriticality