Principles – good or bad?

Principles allow one to operate under an easy set of morals.
Morals are typically good.
These principles can decide what someone does in their daily life without much thought: A lady is being mugged on a street outside the bus, a man sees this, he deices not to get off the bus because he’ll be late for work, and not to call the police figure someone already had.
Same situation but he’s getting on the bus, not already on it: He attacks the mugger and the women gets away shaken but fine.
This man’s morals are based only what will be easy for him. Some people will have leaped off the bus to help, some would have phoned the police, most do nothing and will even have the audacity to record things like that with a cell phone.
Some principles work off of what people have seen or heard, like picking up the tab on a date.
Morals are good; some people just like to be Superman, and others don’t give two fucks about anybody.

Yeahh morals are principles, but principles aren’t necessarily moral.

I think if you make a set of principles to live by, then people are able to respond to their surroundings more easily. I’m not talking about any specific situational or moral outcome, I’m talking about how people like to have a set of guidelines to follow, whether it be made by themselves or their own religion.

This could enable people to not take each situation as an individual situation, just kind of act as they have already instructed themselves to do in their personal guidebook, perhaps not give the situation at hand as much thought as it needs.

If people live well with structure, then I think people like to live by a set of principles, generally. People like feeling as if they have answers, or at least feel like they have them.

^thus strengthening my argument