A situation in a person, in the act of harm preventing, will side with bad people and force good people to back down or be punished to prevent harm or get rid of conflict. It comes from the idea of a school principal, who is practicing harm prevention, and so can only make rules, shame or appease. Shame and rules do not work on the bully but work on the good kids and since it takes two to fight, he gets the good kid to back down there by ending the fight and stopping harm.
The result is good people are punished and bad people are rewarded.
The result is good people are punished and bad people are rewarded.
Jake suffers from principal syndrome when he wants normal people to surrender their guns instead of going after the criminals who use guns unlawfully.
by cb750 July 15, 2023
Get the Principal Syndromemug. The principalness is a dumb fuck
by Dumbfuckwordmaster December 1, 2021
Get the Principalnessmug. A document that summarizes another document, however, the summarizing document does not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of the document it proclaims to summarize.
P1: I read the principal points & conclusions memo which said there were no grounds for dismissal?
P2: Oh jeez! You cant read a document summarizing another document because on occasion the summarizing document does not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of the document it proclaims to summarize.
P1: What! No! There were no ground for dismissal.
P2: Sure. However, the four hundred page report says otherwise.
P2: Oh jeez! You cant read a document summarizing another document because on occasion the summarizing document does not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of the document it proclaims to summarize.
P1: What! No! There were no ground for dismissal.
P2: Sure. However, the four hundred page report says otherwise.
by MD451 May 23, 2023
Get the Principal Points & Conclusionsmug. When a coworker tells on you and the boss calls you into their office to talk to them; Refers to the way kids have to talk to the principal when they get in trouble and makes fun of the way that the tattle tales are being childish.
by SiL3Nt J September 12, 2023
Get the Talk to the principalmug. The economic theory that it Asians will eventually overcome all the racism and greed and establish world domination
by D Flawless May 16, 2021
Get the Principal-Asian Theorymug. by anonymous January 25, 2022
Get the quadratic verbulated paradox of fourth principal of astrochemestrymug. What a grade-school student tells someone as a reason for his unwillingness to perform a requested action; it means dat while he personally would not mind doing it, he is afraid dat "da big man in dat dreaded upstairs office" would disapprove, and thus he would give him major grief if he found out.
One sixth-grade boy conversing with another on da playground: Sorry, Dude --- I can't slip you a textbook in class to help you get a better grade on your test; it's the principal of the thing."
by QuacksO February 3, 2023
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