The "higher moral principle of fundamental liberty" is choosing the more free/less restrictive path even when that leads to worse outcomes. That's literally th

The "higher moral principle of fundamental liberty" is choosing the more free/less restrictive path even when that leads to worse outcomes. That's literally the idea behind the entire liberty vs freedom discussion - that (for instance) even if giving the government access to all our communications would make us safer, it's still not what should be done.