Like the older Candide I am a pessimist and my personal experience is that:
a)Roughly a third of people are either simply nuts (insane, partially schizophrenic, manic-depressive, etc.), have significant character flaws (greed, dishonesty, vice, short temper, addiction, etc.), hold far-fetched ideas that bar them from thinking clearly or are too dim-witted to do so. In any conflict or decision, they will never agree to most anything.
b) Half of people are amenable to reason but require a significant effort in both time and expense to gain agreement. No decision will ever take less than a week.
c) A final one-sixth of persons will see a presented beneficial resolution for both parties _and_ will act thereupon almost immediately.
"Deescalation is not emotionally satisfying but it does [sometimes] work."
FTFY
but you may not agree.
JohnSully, you are an optimist. As in
"this is the best of all possible worlds." -the early Candide in Voltaire's Candide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds#Cr...
Like the older Candide I am a pessimist and my personal experience is that:
a)Roughly a third of people are either simply nuts (insane, partially schizophrenic, manic-depressive, etc.), have significant character flaws (greed, dishonesty, vice, short temper, addiction, etc.), hold far-fetched ideas that bar them from thinking clearly or are too dim-witted to do so. In any conflict or decision, they will never agree to most anything.
b) Half of people are amenable to reason but require a significant effort in both time and expense to gain agreement. No decision will ever take less than a week.
c) A final one-sixth of persons will see a presented beneficial resolution for both parties _and_ will act thereupon almost immediately.