Comment by elil17

Okay, the constitution is as far from “first principles” as you can possibly get. Totally arbitrary. If that’s what you value, that’s fine, but it is not more logical than someone else’s view.

If you really do start from first principles (I think “utilitarianism” might be a better example of something that would be a first principle), and you find out that one side of an issue is good and the other is evil, or even if you find out that one political party is a good bit morally better than the other, you’re now back to picking sides. Because picking the right side of a morally important issue is a moral imperative to most people.