A working solution is often better than a stalled situation.

Taking on difficult problems. Uncertainty abounds. With strong emotions involved on all sides. Action is needed but none which offer a free and clear path. Find some way, question and simplify assumptions, develop a pragmatic solution even if it is not the most efficient one. It will do for the moment. To know if the course of important actions is consistent with ones reasoning and beliefs, test it repeatedly, in a variety of situations, not just the current one, and see how the results turn out. Expect results which in turn tests what we think, feel and believe.

- Vigs

A difference in opinion is no more important than what one'd like for dinner ...

It's personal. Hear others'. Indicate mine. We believe what we believe. No point shooting down what somebody else, anybody, believes in. Or putting somebody in a position of having to defend what they believe in. That would be difficult to do without depending on other beliefs one has. And it is unlikely that force can change ones beliefs. Perhaps a good example of what one believes would be a better testament to it. One worth emulating ourself.

- Vigs

Opposing ideas and beliefs are unlikely to be resolved by taking sides.

Consensus does not always provide the correct answer. But it does provide a way the group can proceed for the time being. It shows the direction of the prevailing wind - which can change, and often does over time.

- Vigs