The area of social choice (SC) as traditionally conceived deals with a community making a decision starting from and taking into account the preferences of its members. The preferences of the individuals being diverse and the decision sought by the community being unique, SC constitutes a conflict of kind (b). The decision of the community should be based on and in some sense reflect the preferences of the individuals. How to realize this maxim is the concern of SC theory. Coombs and A vrunin proposed the above distinctions only for those kinds of conflict in which the alternatives the conflict is about are clearly distinguished and given a priori. So, the parties in the conflict do agree about what the alternatives are and they know that eventually the conflict is being resolved in one of the pre-given alternatives. Considering a set of cars ordered from low to high quality and, jointly, from low to high price - so that higher quality can only be obtained at higher price - a prospective buyer is torn between low price and high quality (conflict of kind (a)) but eventually decides on one of the pre-given cars in which (s)he deems the trade-off between price and quality optimal. In deciding where to store nuclear waste first a set of feasible sites is determined and, then, one of those sites is eventually chosen although parts of the community may have various and strong opinions on what site is best 15