In today's world of manifold negative peace, created through the perpetuating binary of winners vs. losers, two opposing sides of an argument will continually struggle for a dominant position resulting in a win/lose situation, soon to be overthrown by the moment losers. However, to create a win/win scenario in which the conflict between sides is permanently resolved, differing sides must be united without compromise or conformity. The only way to truly end an argument forever, short of killing everyone who opposes your viewpoint, is to create a larger problem that encompasses both sides of the argument and ultimately unifies all parties involved through their opposition to the new problem or to remove the fulcrum on which the controversy hinges. Both sides must abandon their focalized viewpoint to go above the argument and see the controversy from every perspective. Thus the final solution lies in either the creation of an environing greater implication or the removal of the fulcrum.
In the example of racial profiling, primary players can be defined as; those who believe racial profiling is a constitutionally legal and effective law enforcement method that should be used by the United States executive system and conversely, those who believe racial profiling is not constitutional and should not be used as a method of law enforcement by the United States executive system. This binary could be eliminated if the fulcrum of ethnicity (the whole controversy hinges on characteristic differences generated by ethnic diversity) were eliminated. In order for officers of the law to see past the racial stereotypes that they have formulated, they must see no difference of skin color.
While this scenario is difficult to create, the premise remains that ending the controversy is achieved by removing the primary implication of the argument so that each side has nothing to fight over anymore.
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