Perhaps diversity of opinion and viewpoint is a higher-order state of affairs than agreement, Shambles. IMO, such diversity certainly is more reflective of our endless capacity for creative thinking. It also is more useful when one is dealing with one's own back yard. For example I rarely find I can quite agree with daylia, yet I learn much friom her that I can put to good use in those areas where I can actually look toward progress. If she agreed with me, I think I could learn less and I don't think I could accomplish more-- she is 'way over there and I'm right here.

People who meet online but are located all over the planet can't exactly act in concert, or at least, not effectively. Not in the complex kinds of issues that are entangled in this thread. We CAN act responsibly, each in our own sphere of activity, and whether we define that in the same way doesn't matter much. We still have to evaluate our actions (and the consequences) based on what we see happening around us.

In any event, your own efforts to understand a thing seldom seem to lead to even the broadest agreement. If, again using the example of daylia and I, agreement were to occur, it doesn't seem to me that it would have anything to do with your efforts to pin us all into some kind of "agreement." It would happen on its own, more likely, and it would not even require that either of us say anything about it to each other or anyone else. People can be in concord without speaking a word. Indeed, sometimes words get in the way more than they help.

~S~