I hope not. It's the opposite of that. Logic is rational, theoretical. What's he's saying is practical. You're talking Principles, and he's talking about what happens to Principled folk, when those folk are specifically targeted and undermined using their Principles as a weakness.

That's what this whole Age is about. It's about starting with an unprecedented clean slate and coming up with too good a plan for a fair, decent, and consistent Governance. And then 2 centuries of petty assholes and power-seekers saying "Oh, yeah!?" and probing for weaknesses at every turn, for generations.

Principles are great, logic is great. But they've got to bend to sheer practicality if antagonists specifically target Principles and Logic as weak points. There has to be some aegis.