A group can preserve peace by assigning one person the permanent job of being reasonable.

A group can stay peaceful by assigning one person the permanent role of being reasonable. They are the one who compromises, de-escalates, and lets things go, and the harmony everyone enjoys is produced largely by their repeated concessions. The role usually gets allocated without discussion and is very hard to give up.

If that is your position, notice what it has cost you and try withholding the concession once, on something small. The group will manage. And if you benefit from someone else’s reasonableness, it is worth naming it aloud, since the role tends to be invisible precisely because it works so well.