If you cede inequality towards one innocent person, you've ceded the whole principle of equality. Which means you've got nothing. Especially when the question is one of life and death.
Every day in America 3,700 innocent babies a killed by an abortionist. But it's more important to parade our moral superiority than to develop a rational plan to save as many of those lives as possible?
When I used to play poker, there was no better guy to have sit at the table than someone who would bet the farm on every hand; he was absolutely certain to lose.