I don't think I can subscribe to such a strict dichotomy. I lean very heavily towards principles first but I'm also enough of a pragmatist to realize that those principles are ultimately a luxury only afforded to those who have first won the power necessary to enact/enforce them.

What worries me about the outcome first approach is that it comes with the very real danger of forfeiting one's principles entirely in order to achieve victory and without a sufficiently strong commitment to said principles it is possible they end up never returning. You can see this already playing out in attitudes surrounding freedom of expression.

I don't think I can subscribe to such a strict dichotomy. I lean very heavily towards principles first but I'm also enough of a pragmatist to realize that those principles are ultimately a luxury only afforded to those who have first won the power necessary to enact/enforce them.

What worries me about the outcome first approach is that it comes with the very real danger of forfeiting one's principles entirely in order to achieve victory and without a sufficiently strong commitment to said principles it is possibly they end up never returning. You can see this already playing out in attitudes surrounding freedom of expression.