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Old 02-09-2007, 07:35 AM
Mickey Brausch Mickey Brausch is offline
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Default Re: Intolerance

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It's tolerance. End of story.

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But like all good stories, there's an epilogue: the paradox of tolerance - tolerating intolerance. No matter how we try to work around this; tolerance and intolerance cannot co-exist. We can't tolerate the intolerant.

[/ QUOTE ]Either we tolerate him or intolerance wins -- because then we would all become intolerant.

Very clearly and provenly so, tolerance can carry the day. The United States of America is a fine example of that, despite efforts to the contrary (most of them having the "best intentions" too.)

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There's always this catch-22 that comes up. Yeah, Ghandi figured it out...

[/ QUOTE ]No, tolerance should not mean pacifism nor weakness in our resolve. The penalties for practising Nazism, for example, (e.g. killing Jews) should be severe.

That's the total opposite of the benign neglect with which the ideas of Nazis should be handled. Should I remined everyone once more of the Jewish laywer from the ACLU defending the American Nazis' right to march through Jewish-inhabited Skokie, Illinois? (link) A truly glorious page in American history, that.

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