Another ‘critical thinking moment’ ;)
Compromise.
Assuming you begin with two people with strongly held convictions, one must by definition ‘compromise’ a portion of that conviction to achieve a ‘mutually agreeable’ result.
This is fine when choosing a pizza with sausage or pepperoni. It is abandoning some portion of strongly held belief when treading deeper waters.
A recent quote I saw on FR illustrates it perfectly (this was RE Abortion)
“If it’s not a baby, then you aren’t pregnant”.
I love that quote because at it’s core it’s 100% unassailable logic. As it pertains to compromise,
“If you are willing to abandon part of a strongly held belief, at some point, you will find a reason you’ll be willing to abandon the rest.”
I learned what happens in ‘compromise’ with the environuts. YOU compromise, over and overandoverandoverandover... until you lose everything. Incrementalism at it’s finest, and that’s what compromise with evil, capital or lowercase E, results in eventually.
You lose everything.
I should have been a Palidin. At the rate that the govt is compromising with Islam, I may still get the chance ;)
I think there may be many chances for the Paladin role.
I agree with the compromise stuff - you can compromise with rational people, with gentlemen, with sane people, with non-evil people. Because you’re on the same side. But compromising with Leftists is like compromising with a cobra - he wants to bite you on the face, and you compromise and let him bite you on the hand.
Either way you’re dead.