course, some of us will be incapable of producing acts of either kind with any consistency. When confronted with the most divisive difference, we tend to act neither as the virtuous do, nor with self-restraint. If we hope to keep the peace, we may have to avoid the objectionable person or thing altogether. For treatments of this strategy, its timing and rationality, see Elster, Ulysses and the Sirens, 36-111 and Hirschman, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, 21-54.