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If you have a plethora of competing values, the competition on itself engenders anxiety. And that's well mapped neurophysiologically. And you can say in a sense that anxiety is actually an index of disunity. And so the price you pay for the patchwork is the consequence of the multitude of values that you have competing; they're going to compete: there'll be situations they're going to go head-to-head. It's very stressful. Conflicts of duty even, like, it can be a good against an evil, but it could be two goods against one another. And then you'll have to mediate between them or you're trapped between them in a place you can't make a decision, very existentially demanding.
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