Some differences are too great for any arbitration to reconcile

Evidence

There is a threshold of differences beyond which the meeting of conflicting parties becomes impossible, no matter how high the point of conciliation may be located. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 5736

Categorization

• XREF: Limits the triad mechanism the reader maps onto Dostoevsky: suggests some guilts, if identities are too alien from the witness, can never be externalized by any third party.