First, agree on the Legal Principle is essential.
- Factual disputes are inherently complex.
- Many of the world’s biggest and thorniest issues come down to a disagreement on facts. ‘Echo chambers’, exacerbated by social media, have caused large factions of society to have significant disagreements about basic facts on many complex issues.
- These are inherently difficult to resolve. The Live and Let Live Movement does not pretend to a monopoly on the truth, like anyone else. A formal trial is the best way to resolve factual disputes.
- The key to avoiding further polarisation is to have humility with regard to the facts we believe in, especially when we lack the direct personal knowledge. It is easy to find ‘experts’ to support almost any position on any issue. Much more important is we start from a shared acceptance of the the underlying Legal Principle, and leave it to courts to weigh all evidence to resolve factual disputes.
Steps
- Agree on the Principle, even if we do not agree on the facts (keep a look out for factual disputes!).
- Now we can agree on the hypothetical.
- And we can also agree on the victimless crime issues that we do share.
