Pragmatism over morals leads directly to &quot;end justifies the means&quot; thinking. It&#x27;s basically doing the wrong thing for the right reason, and what&#x27;s worse, without that moral anchor, it&#x27;s very easy to use the same excuse to do something just a little more annoying next time.<p>The slippery slope might be a logical fallacy, but history points to it as the normal mode of operation for a government.