Indeed, one of the arguments for constructing a common foreign and security policy in the European Union is precisely that the European view of world affairs is likely, sometimes, todivergefrom the American one.
What all this means is that the cost of medical care is subject to market forces that diverge strongly from the prices patients would pay in a free market.
And the experience of several countries suggests that, whatever educators and politicians might want, there is a limit to how far history lessons can diverge in their tone from society as a whole.
Michael Moore is right to point out that the settlement which emerged from any negotiations between Edinburgh and London might divergefrom the original expectations in Scotland.
But our technology arguments divergefrom disagreements about music and religion in that we have numbers and statistics to fuel things along, allowing the arguments to plod forward seemingly forever.