Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Diversity does not preclude political stability.
Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.