Guide on How to Reach Agreement

January 8, 2013 

 

In my experience, there is only one possible way to get all living human beings to agree on a certain point of view.  That only way is to terminate anyone that doesn’t agree with that point of view.  That is the negotiating philosophy that has been accepted by Al Qaeda.  The biggest drawback to this philosophy is that it would eventually require the termination of all but one human being because no two human beings are designed to have identical opinions about everything.

 

There are other, less lethal ways of coming to an agreement.  The democratic philosophy of Majority Rules is one of those other ways.  We attempt to use that less lethal philosophy in the United States with mixed results, but at least we have learned to live with differences of opinion.  Is our way frustrating?  Absolutely.  On any given issue, at least 50 percent will have some degree of opposition.  To reach agreement in these circumstances requires a compromise somewhere in the middle, depending on how strong the feelings are on each side, like a tug-of-war.  When either political party within the United States allows the extremes too much control, we see Congressional stalemates.  That is where we sit today.  Isn’t it time we revert back to the principles of compromise that made us the nation we are today, before the cost of inaction achieves the same outcome as the Al Qaeda philosophy?