We should not commit lesser evils while attempting to overcome a great evil. It is far too easy to surpass the great evil with the sum of our lesser evils, and then we have not only exceeded the original, but these lesser evils are often ineffective at fighting the great evil and we have turned the tide in its favor.
There is excess in the defense of liberty (and several other worthy abstract nouns): excess that sullies the liberty protected until it is an unrecognizable thing that lay in fetters at the feet of a once-great civilization. We must not spill the blood of innocents to avenge our lost innocence and innocents, or we will sure not just become the dragon we fight, but one far worse than that, a failed saint.
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