Losing on deeply held cultural issues can feel like domination despite fair procedure

Evidence

But suppose, to move to the difficult variant of our second case, that the contestation in question is of really pressing import, personal or cultural. The issue may have to do with whether a person will or will not be forced to do something that is offensive on religious grounds, or something that goes against a deep conviction of conscience. Or it may have to do with whether to recognize the traditional law of an indigenous population or whether to introduce an institutional arrangement that is passionately desired, say, among homosexual men or women. How can the disappointed party feel that they are not dominated in such a situation? — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 902