"And if we are to live together and not to die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuati...
That’s pretty apt advice given today’s volatile society. I wonder and struggle about the tolerance part. Who should tolerate who? Should we tolerate those who are intolerant of us? If we all tolerated each other, then that’s the ideal scenario. But if there’s an intolerant group, should they be tolerated? If we don’t tolerate the intolerant, then we’ll be accused of being intolerant. But if we allow them to be intolerant, then what happens?
That’s pretty apt advice given today’s volatile society. I wonder and struggle about the tolerance part. Who should tolerate who? Should we tolerate those who are intolerant of us? If we all tolerated each other, then that’s the ideal scenario. But if there’s an intolerant group, should they be tolerated? If we don’t tolerate the intolerant, then we’ll be accused of being intolerant. But if we allow them to be intolerant, then what happens?