People listen to conflicting views when they are convinced their view has been understood. The road belongs to everyone. Playing chicken and risking a head-on collision is dangerously immature. The rules of the road are the same for all. Principles rule rather than intimidation or manipulation.
People can be their best selves in spite of their worst selves.
When anything goes, everything goes. But when accountability is clear, hidden agendas and little mafias do not own the road. Positions become complementary, not adversarial. People have choices and alternatives individually and corporately. They are free to work with rather than against, to work for rather than fight about, not to have power over but power with.