The Natures-of-Alieantive-Conflicts are different if the Natures of the Poles/Sides are different: ================================================ Ideals versus Ideals Desires versus Desires Visions versus Visions Dreams versus Dreams Goals versus Goals Plans versus Plans ================================================ As compared to All-Possible-Combinations of the following And-Many-Other possible-foci for Alienative-Conflicts: ==================================================================================================================== Ideals Desires Visions Goals Plans Commands Demands Anxieties Fears Greed Hoarding Clinging Traditions Rituals Violence Coercion Domination Concentrations Arrogance Pride ==================================================================================================================== We are not likely to be able to Mitigate Our-Own-Alieantive-Conflicts in any Helpful-Ways - - - if we are unaware of the multitude of different kinds of conflicts that do-exist - - - because of the contrasts-in-the-natures-of the Paired-Poles which are Foci-Withing Particular-Alieantive-Conflicts over incoherent: Ideals, Values, Principles, Grounds-for-Hope, Technologies, Technocrats, etc. - - - as just hinted-at-above. With just ten different kinds of poles in conflicts - -- there are one hundred differnt kinds of possible Alieantive-Conflicts - - - if each kind of pole can come into conflict as either inferior-or-superior power; and otherwise there is no significance to which-pole is-named-first. Real-Complexity-Enters when Protaganists within Contrasting-Kinds-of-Conflicts DEMAND that participants in yet other conflicts Let-Go of their own conflicts - - - to spend time, energy and attention focusing upon TAKING-ALIENATIVE-POSITIONS within new-to-them additional Alieantive-Conflicts - - - rather than spending time, energy and attention focusing upon GRACIOUSLY MITIGATING-THEIR-OWN-CONFLICTS. Every person has only LIMITED-TIME-ENERGY-AND-POSSIBLE-ATTENTION to devote to WINNING or MITIGATING the many different kinds of conflicts between different kinds of poles that are the foci of Alieantive-Conflicts! Strangers are in no position to help each other in any significant ways - - - within more than a VERY-LIMITED number of contrasting conflicts of any kind. Beware of people who believe that they can "settle" many alienative-conflicts in their own "special/superior" WAY! Be-Together in Shalom's Reconciling-Ways