tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post2855749527501676907..comments2023-12-15T21:49:46.651+01:00Comments on Pluralist Speaks: Compromise!Pluralist (Adrian Worsfold)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-14863040289568415012010-10-11T10:54:26.475+02:002010-10-11T10:54:26.475+02:00I agree about the difficulty of compromise when it...I agree about the difficulty of compromise when it means codifying everything into immovable "tradition".<br /><br />But genuine compromise is the opposite of codifying anything, it's the admission that things can change, even if we feel we can't change with them. It means precisely that the slowest to change are not holding up the whole process.<br /><br />The other effect genuine compromise has is that it diffuses the escalation of conflict. There is this strange phenomenon that something becomes more and more polarised in the cause of a debate, and the more rigid people become the more extreme they become and the more their view on this particular issue seems to become of overriding importance.<br />The strange escalation of homosexuality from a second order issue to a first order issue to THE test of orthodoxy is an example.<br /><br />Genuine compromise can help for conflict to simmer down until your awareness of the complexity of life and the relative importance of things is more balanced again and you don’t have to spend all your time fighting vicious and destructive battles. It helps to get things back into proportion. And it also means that we’re not taking ourselves and our own view so extremely seriously that anything else absolutely has to be eradicated.Erika Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01812376497361267014noreply@blogger.com