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Aielyn said:

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It's about striking a Balance!! A compromise. Unfortunately, it seems the inhabitants of todays world are too selfish to be able to compromise. We are watching the history of the downfall of man in all his/her selfishness. It has to be their way, 100%. Well, see the problem is, that then one person in the fight has to go away forever, don't they? Thus, war. So much war and violence.

Actually, the idea that compromise always produces a better outcome is wrong. It's the Golden Mean Fallacy or Argument to Moderation. Sometimes, one side or the other has it 100% right.

What it's actually about is optimisation, and the question needs to be asked, what is "optimal"? It's certainly a topic for debate, but I usually view "the greater good" as a good starting point for it (as vague as it is, most people have at least some sense of its meaning).

At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law, should there have been a compromise with the Nazis? Should we have allowed them to kill some of the Jews on the basis of compromise? Or perhaps compromise and allow them to completely uproot all of them (and all of the others that they targetted) and ship them to the middle of nowhere? Clearly not. Which isn't to say that compromise is a bad thing, just that it's not always the solution.

The real problem isn't about the unwillingness to compromise, it's about the unwillingness to even compare notes and determine a common end goal (that is, the "optimum").

 

You're taking elements and making them a whole picture. Killing Jews was a bas element, but the Nazis were not 100% bad in every way. When looking at the big picture, there is always a balance to be struck. i.e We could have took some of the Nazi practices such as the auto bahn construction, Mercedes, VW, Addidas, Puma....Oh wait, we did.