Human behavior must be guided by a higher principle. Practicality has its place but only within a framework of values, which all men of good will share. When this trio is not in harmony, policies and actions go askew, contrary to popular pragmatic precepts. I have discovered that moral sense and common sense are not mutually exclusive. As a practical matter they are synonymous indeed.
Unprincipled policies are ultimately and inherently impractical.
The sooner one learns that simple lesson, the simpler one's life becomes. Well, most of the major religions, in addition to their beliefs regarding divinity, espouse common laws of morality. It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source. For example, Islam, the predominant religion in the Middle East, accepts as an integral part of its religious teachings both the Old and the New Testaments. If this commonality of moral traditions among the world's major religions does not say something about the universality of religion, it does say something about the universality of mankind.