[salawat]

Counterpoint:

If you compromise every ethical principle (because everyone else does), I vontend you are in no better ethical standing than anyone else. Some has to maintain the height of the bar as the "unreasonable person in the room".

Remember, the only thing keeping us from an ideal world is all those filthy pragmatists out there.

[justrealist]

That's not a counterpoint, it's just a self-inflated way of patting yourself on the back while doing nothing.