 3. Majoritarian solutions. Another way to deal with conflicts is to look for the alternatives that are favoured by most (but not necessarily all) of the preference relations. This requires that the aspects covered by the different preference relations are valued equally. Therefore, this solution is commonly used when the elements of the vector correspond to the wishes or interests of different persons, but not when they correspond to more general aspects of a decision (such as sustainability and aesthetics in the example of of choosing an architectural design). 