Related: the idea that tumult and fighting is not a failure of the process, it IS the process working the only way it realistically can. The trick is to figure out when that crosses over to pathology.

I wonder how many of these different camps - or bike shedders - are really trying to get at the truth, vs score points against the hated enemy? Is that knowable? From everything I've taken in, it seems like bcashers really did (and do) believe the truth of their pursuits. Like, they thought in a principled fashion that it was existentially important.

I'm glad that war was fought bc it solidified values. About this current one I don't know.