01-19-2017, 01:42 PM
(01-19-2017, 12:15 PM)kandrathe Wrote: Compromise includes removing items from the body, or editing things that are objectionable. The first compromise both need to make is to agree that you will be building Frankenstein together.
There is no universally applicable rule of compromise. Whose interests are compromised upon, and in what proportions (what even *is* a proportion)? How does that map onto the infinite space of possible policy? Bargaining theory is maddeningly complicated, and the policies that are being bargained over are doubly so.
I mean, I object to Brexit. How does that help? Do I get Brexit removed from the foreign policy of the UK, because I object, and therefore it is objectionable? Do I get half-Brexit (or 52% Brexit)? What if a policy isn't really amenable to degrees, there is no "middle" to push a bit one way or another? That both me and my pro-Brexit compatriots agree that we are Frankensteining together a foreign policy for the UK does not really solve any of the outstanding problems...
-Jester