>What is important is maintaining the institutions that have been wildly successful in mediating conflict between diverse groups, and that all the different tribes of a society make an effort to accept that institutions are more fair and reasonable than the alternatives.
Dred Scot Vs. Sandford
Plessy vs Fergusson
In short we can not agree that institutions have mediated anything, nor that they are even remotely fair.
Sometimes, quite often actually, no real compromise is possible, unless you consider half a glass of poison and half a glass of water is an acceptable compromise between drinking a glass of water and a glass of poison.
The reason for the current issues in the US is that the various groups have now discovered that no, they can't live and let live.
Dred Scot Vs. Sandford
Plessy vs Fergusson
In short we can not agree that institutions have mediated anything, nor that they are even remotely fair.
Sometimes, quite often actually, no real compromise is possible, unless you consider half a glass of poison and half a glass of water is an acceptable compromise between drinking a glass of water and a glass of poison.
The reason for the current issues in the US is that the various groups have now discovered that no, they can't live and let live.