I've talked about this with some folks before concerning what victory or winning means to the quadras.
1. For beta, achieving victory is asserting dominance and superiority.
2. For gamma, they want to assert dominance and superiority but via something quantifiable, a points victory.
3. For delta, these guys are just losers... j/k
I believe delta wishes to achieve a points victory, but things like love of the game and enjoyment of the game are valued over dominating the opponent. Not prone to running up the score. A tie might be considered the best possible game. In a delta influenced society like Japan, you can see this in the post-tie celebrations.
4. For alpha, winning and losing are based in less concrete elements.
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while other quadras have at least one concrete function which qualifies victory, such as
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. Alpha's goals can be either advancement of truth or great popular attention. A victory for a alpha might be to figure out a new way to play a game, or a new understanding of the world and those ideas gaining some acceptance from others.
There is no fixed goal in a discussion or argument usually, sometimes one argues to win, say against someone attempting to incite racial bigotry or making false claims against others for political motives. In a argument with a research peer it might be more important to advance our mutual understanding and leave the ego stroking out of it. When having a discussion with a teacher, it might be important to ask appropriate questions in order to get more insightful answers.
Fixed goals are not really a Alpha motivation.
As far as other quadras not voting winning at all costs, advancement of a "higher" truth often provides a rational for "winning at all costs".
The idea of a higher "truth" actually means that one's truth is somehow greater then a opposing "truth".
A and B can be lumped together.