Conflict is a natural part of life; when people try to avoid it entirely, rather than just deal with it in as constructive a manner as possible, they get into very deep trouble.
Some conflict is what I would call "frictional," in the economic sense: conflict that occurs naturally, and doesn't really involve matters of principle and in which neither side is clearly and demonstrably night. Let's say you and I are roommates, and I prefer to sleep with the window open and you prefer it closed; there isn't an objective right answer to this. It's just a difference that needs to be ironed out, and we'll get into more trouble if we escalate it beyond its worth or catastrophize it into a great moral conflict: "Yes, Kieran, I can see how closing the window at night is exactly like what the Germans did to Poland," Daniel said dryly
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Some conflict is what I would call "frictional," in the economic sense: conflict that occurs naturally, and doesn't really involve matters of principle and in which neither side is clearly and demonstrably night. Let's say you and I are roommates, and I prefer to sleep with the window open and you prefer it closed; there isn't an objective right answer to this. It's just a difference that needs to be ironed out, and we'll get into more trouble if we escalate it beyond its worth or catastrophize it into a great moral conflict: "Yes, Kieran, I can see how closing the window at night is exactly like what the Germans did to Poland," Daniel said dryly ( ... )
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