[gnaritas]

> You did posit it as the alternative

No, he posted it as a snarky example of why you simply can't always find compatible beliefs. His point had nothing to do with feudalism or indentured servitude. He was simply making the point that when one group wants to oppress another, there are no compatible compromises to make when the oppressed don't want to be oppressed.

Live and let live only works when you don't try and control others but most of our conflict comes from those trying to control others and those others resisting.

Abortion would not be an issue if those who didn't like them didn't get them and left everyone else alone. Religion wouldn't be a problem if the religious didn't continually try and impose their morals on the non-religious; don't like gays, don't be gay, but trying to cure other people from gayness is trying to control others. This could go on and on, trying to control others leads to conflict and that's mostly what politics is about, resolving those conflicts.