And being aware of the balance should steer us away from extreme positions - refusing to fly at all or ignoring the issue - towards taking practical, realistic steps to a solution.
Western instincts should steer us onto the side of Simin, whose head is lightly scarved but who also wears bluejeans, and yet there is something no less compelling in the calm, bespectacled mien of Termeh, who chides her mother with an essentially conservative truth: "If you hadn't left, Dad wouldn't be in jail".
The rest of us should steer clear of them too.
It's a production that steers us gently to what should always be a rom-com's most important realization.
England have recorded their worst performance in a World Cup since 1958, yet the FA have decided that the man who steered us on to these rocks should continue at the helm.
Translated to Simpson-talk: "If it looks like a bum steer on Social Security, sounds like a bum steer, struts and staggers like a bum steer, we should just call it a bum steer".
She (or "he" for a steer) should look more feminine and refined than a bull of her breeding.
Steers and heifers should be obvious, but feeders, canners, cutters and bologna bulls (also called "butcher bulls") are not.
In cows and heifers (and even in steers), head characteristics should be the opposite of a bull's.
When we consulted with parents of children with life-limiting conditions in developing our project proposal, they gave us a clear steer that the care planning resources should focus on 'living' and not 'end-of-life'.
"I can't see why I should steer [Mona] forever, when I can't steer me forever," he protests, slightly impatiently.
