It's like when we deign policy we never have KPI's, OKR's, or any other metrics associated with it to define what we agree what success is. Everything is an ideological battle to claim a new trench and push the opposition back a trench.

I think we'd get along better if we first proposed and found agreement upon which metrics we want to achieve (gun deaths at x%, or a decline of x% by such and such date, etc) and then implement policy that get there. And then correct as needed.

There was a time when universities had a very disproportionate amount of males VS females. So we passed policy that was designed to make a university degree more achievable for females. And it has worked, which is great! However, we never really implemented an end condition to this policy. And the entrenched apparatus that makes it's living or achieves ideological goals continue the policy, as-is, in a never ending battle.

If we would have said "we want 50% of college students to be female by x-date" (or better, we want to maintain a balance of 50/50) then we could have either stopped the policies that were used to correct the initial condition or modify them to hold it steady at 50%. But we haven't and now 56% are females and it's growing and any suggestion that we either need to hold off on these policies now that we achieved the goal or even correct it to get more males into universities is immediately labeled sexist, etc.

I think it's easier to get a diverse group of people to work towards a common goal when you define the end condition (put a man on the moon) rather than using vague descriptions of what would be a better world. At the very least it stops skeptics from just flat out saying "no, as it will never end".