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Originally Posted by donquixote99
That could of course be framed as a conflict of principles. Isn't it a very important principle that the well-being of one's children must be maximized? So Bill wasn't being unprincipled, he just was in a dilemma where he had to choose between principles.
An unprincipled response would have been 'The heck with her, send her to the public school, it will make me look good.'
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Bill wasn't being accused of being unprincipled, he was accused of being a hypocrite. Maybe hypocrites are automatically unprincipled in the minds of some...but I've already gone more analytically deep into this than provides any enjoyment for myself.