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by Gormo 727 days ago
No, compromise is when a variety of people with different interests and values try to find a middle-ground solution that's sufficiently acceptable to everyone involved, each according to their own particular criteria. Proposing solutions that can only be pursued if everyone adopts a single set of criteria does not encourage compromise, it encourages conflict.

Societies are not monolithic blobs with a singular "common good" -- they're complex networks of relations among different people with fundamentally varying worldviews and value systems. Making public-interests projects work entails respecting pluralism and individual autonomy. There's no alternative: projects that depend on conformity will inevitably fail.