{"id":9839,"date":"2012-03-22T06:04:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T06:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/22\/on-taking-principles-to-extremes\/"},"modified":"2012-03-22T06:04:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T06:04:32","slug":"on-taking-principles-to-extremes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/22\/on-taking-principles-to-extremes\/","title":{"rendered":"On Taking Principles to Extremes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">That a principle can be taken to an extreme is no argument against the principle so taken.&#0160; It is rather an argument against extremism.&#0160; The principle that one has the right to keep and bear arms, for example, is not refuted by the fact that some will take it to mean&#0160; that one has the right to keep and &#39;bear&#39; tactical nukes.&#0160; Similarly in other cases.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That a principle can be taken to an extreme is no argument against the principle so taken.&#0160; It is rather an argument against extremism.&#0160; The principle that one has the right to keep and bear arms, for example, is not refuted by the fact that some will take it to mean&#0160; that one has the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/22\/on-taking-principles-to-extremes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Taking Principles to Extremes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-reason-and-rationality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}