One of the maxims of maximally effective mercenaries: "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, nothing more."
Top reply implies a fundamental right and wrong situation, a broken clock analogy effecitvely. But it can also be true that both aligned interests in the one situation are entirely correct within their reasonings and beliefs AND the other side's reasonings and beliefs, just not on much else. For a meme example, look at the "Islam is right about women" campaign: Both Islamists and the more fundie Christians can look at the statement, but you won't see much cooperation or community beyond that between the two groups when the two groups are effectively in a 1500 year holy war.
Finding common ground is important, but in many cases, the similarities are either simply coincidental as a result of sharing an overall basic human condition, or there is some part of their doctrine that forbids true cooperation (because if there wasn't... they'd be doing it already.)
EDIT: One day, I'm sure we'll get a Redditor Atheist negotiating with an Islamist Imam, and saying "yes, we both agree women are just animals with no soul, you're halfway there, we're ALL in the order animalia, and souls don't exist. You'll get there eventually, so make sure you never forget that first half, knowing women don't have souls means you're halfway there, common ground!". One day, I'm sure.
One of the maxims of maximally effective mercenaries: "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, nothing more."
Top reply implies a fundamental right and wrong situation, a broken clock analogy effecitvely. But it can also be true that both aligned interests in the one situation are entirely correct within their reasonings and beliefs AND the other side's reasonings and beliefs, just not on much else. For a meme example, look at the "Islam is right about women" campaign: Both Islamists and the more fundie Christians can look at the statement, but you won't see much cooperation or community beyond that between the two groups when the two groups are effectively in a 1500 year holy war.
Finding common ground is important, but in many cases, the similarities are either simply coincidental as a result of sharing an overall basic human condition, or there is some part of their doctrine that forbids true cooperation (because if there wasn't... they'd be doing it already.)
One of the maxims of maximally effective mercenaries: "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, nothing more."
Top reply implies a fundamental right and wrong situation, a broken clock analogy effecitvely. But it can also be true that both aligned interests in the one situation are entirely correct in their reasonings and beliefs, just not on much else. For a meme example, look at the "Islam is right about women" campaign: Both Islamists and Fundie Christians can look at the statement and go "yup, that's right.", but you won't see much cooperation or community beyond that when the two groups are effectively in a 1500 year holy war.
Finding common ground is important, but in many cases, the similarities are either simply coincidental as a result of sharing an overall basic human condition, or there is some part of their doctrine that forbids true cooperation (because if there wasn't... they'd be doing it already.)