@DawoodibnKareem A “split-the-baby negotiation” today is a real compromise. Even in the original story, telling both women that they could get half of the baby was a putative compromise, just one so horrific that the arbitrator did not expect it to actually happen, and only proposed it to get the parties to back down from their intractable positions. More @Wikipedia
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