Pragmatism over morals leads directly to "end justifies the means" thinking. It's basically doing the wrong thing for the right reason, and what's worse, withou

Pragmatism over morals leads directly to "end justifies the means" thinking. It's basically doing the wrong thing for the right reason, and what's worse, without that moral anchor, it's very easy to use the same excuse to do something just a little more annoying next time. The slippery slope might be a logical fallacy, but history points to it as the normal mode of operation for a government.