I chose to uphold my ideals, because the only solution on offer was to accept something I could not work with at all. When compromise turns into being compromised, a line is crossed.
If you're able to do that and still have a functional outcome, then that's great. The "high ideals" that the card refers to are the unrealistic type, the ones that require perfection and that are never satisfied with the way imperfect humans behave. That's the issue the card puts before us: How good is good enough? Striving for perfection is one thing; demanding it "or else" is another.
I chose to uphold my ideals, because the only solution on offer was to accept something I could not work with at all. When compromise turns into being compromised, a line is crossed.
If you're able to do that and still have a functional outcome, then that's great. The "high ideals" that the card refers to are the unrealistic type, the ones that require perfection and that are never satisfied with the way imperfect humans behave. That's the issue the card puts before us: How good is good enough? Striving for perfection is one thing; demanding it "or else" is another.