Miners should be able to easily detect erroneously high fees in the same way they detect transactions with too low a fee and also reject them outright. There is no philosophical argument required.
In a fair and perfect world you might be right, but we all know that miners nowadays just look at how much they can generate, and thus will not reject such extreme fee transactions. I remember that a few people (back when Bitcoin wasn't near as much worth as is the case right now) have made similar mistakes, where after that the pool that mined that block returned every satoshi. But that was years ago and doesn't fit in the same category as the one in OP does.
Nobody can be perfect, but we can all be fair. The world need not be fair nor perfect in order to implement a simple and useful change. We just have to know who to ask and how to phrase the question.