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Pastimes : Neocon's Seminar Thread
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To: Neocon who wrote (736)5/5/2003 12:25:34 PM
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Yes. I was also thinking something like "The crux." There is a point in there someplace that matters and that will not be crossed by the disputants. To cross it would be resolution by agreement to move to the other side.

The crux may exist while becoming no longer important. Let's say you and your wife are agueing irresolvably about an issue that concerns where your five year old son goes to school. One of you is certain that it must be private, while the other believes strongly in the public education system. One of you gets transfered to the Amazon Rain forest. The remaining parent gets their way. In the mean time you end up getting divorced in 18 months and the remaining parent gets sole custody. The rain forest parent gets remarried to an Amazonian, starts a new family, and concedes the custody issue. The education issue and the crux of the arguement was never resolved between the two of you but the tension over it is broken.

So tension may be dispelled without actually resolving the issue at the crux of the arguement. Whether or not Iraq cooperates with inspections no longer creates tension. Whether the little boy goes to public or private school, no longer creates tension.

But not all tension over the arguement at the crux is dispelled or resolved. Sometimes the tension continues to rise toward the crux. Back to my original question, is there justification for agression if tensions rise beyond a certain level?
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