My analogy would be a boat inspector who is determined to find and remove every rotten timber in a wooden hull. That is fine in dry dock but not necessarily that clever at sea in a force 10.
Nor is it clever to have the rotten timber in your boat in the force 10 in the first place. If you can RiP the timber then it makes sense to do so.
The boat of our moral high ground only floats because there are no moral leakages (to murder the analogy even further!).