I do agree that is a fact.

Ron made a good point this morning, either here or in an e-mail discussion, that it's probably true that 90% of ITers would agree with the "basics" -- what core IT values are, what shouldn't be touched/modified, what are inconsequential.

For the remaining 10%, we then spend 110% of our energy discussing them.

I'm not saying that is a bad thing, it just is.

I do think there is far more agreement than disagreement on the overall ruleset than it appears.

It's far better, to me, that we are discussing washer bottles and wiring harnesses rather than reward weights or the appropriate sizes of SIRs for example.