>It is important to understand that a negotiation is not the same as a trade. You don't always have to give something tangible to get something back. Very often

>It is important to understand that a negotiation is not the same as a trade. You don't always have to give something tangible to get something back. Very often, negotiations proceed on points of emotion, or morality, alone. An appeal to justice, mercy, friendship etc, is often just as effective. No. It was not effective in the past and it would not be effective in the future. In fact the last 7 years of Greece's relationship to the Troika served as ample example of just how ineffective it was. >In any case, one does not go to the negotiating table after having systematically disparaged the other side as villains Well, when 7 years of treating them as friends achieves nothing... why not try something new, right? PASOK got annihilated in the polls for a reason and that reason is that they tried it your way and failed.