Liberté, égalité, fraternité
High minded principles. We have two contemporaneous examples of how that could turn out, our country being one of them.
How could the results be so different if men are guided by principle?
It's a motto. It's a function of implementation. And it's not really the same function or implementation as the principles in the US. You pump the same thing through different functions you get different results. That just seems tautologically obvious to me. And we're not naturally guided by principle. You have to override the natural instincts to be driven by principle. The character of humans must be continually pruned for sound principles to override instinct. I mean. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying. But this seems like basic stuff here.