It is for this reason that exercises such as this Encyclopedia are of value. In arguing for the need to keep zealots within bounds, Dror unfortunately makes use of the whaling example. The French government has had the greatest difficulty in admitting any wrong-doing in the matter. Were it not for Greenpeace zealots, governments would be more than happy to wallow in complacency. There is an infinite capacity for designing run-around democratic procedures.
Zealots are one necessary counter-actant to simplistic thinking.
Symbols and metaphors More effective use of symbols, as advocated by Dror, is recognition of present conceptual inadequacy and manipulation. The UN has long played with symbols in a sadly unfruitful way. It is for this reason that this Encyclopedia has argued for the use of metaphor, especially metaphor discovered and used by people. It is the metaphor-using potential to explore many facets of solidarity that is more important than symbols of a single monolithic understanding of solidarity. Again Bosnia is an example.