Of course, the idea that a person could both possess a rigid moral code and embrace diverse cultures and religions doesn't seem to even enter your mind. I know silent movies that display the world in less black and white terms than you.
This, I mean.
The idea that endorsing the concept of "some people juggle geese" is the equivalent of endorsing cannibalism and racism, etc., is ridiculous.
I firmly believe that some people juggle geese, and that's okay. But I don't think it's okay that some people oppress minorities or practice stoning for witchcraft or what have you. My philosophy is that anyone who does direct harm to others isn't a very good person, and that anyone who tries to avoid causing direct harm to others is probably okay at the end of the day, regardless of whether or not that person doesn't really like other sorts of people or doesn't really support gay marriage or likes to practice autoerotic asphyxiation in the comfort of his or her own home or wishes all those damn kids would get off the goddamn lawn.
To me, being accepting means not really minding that other people believe differently than me, but it does not mean looking the other way when someone causes harm to another. They are different buckets of sand, and I don't think you can say that the only way to stop the latter is to be an uncompromising prick.
I also think that assuming all or even most people who profess a belief in tolerance are actually just being smug and lazy and hypocritical, is itself sort of smug, lazy, and hypocritical. Like Ghav said, I don't think you could find very many people who seriously claim to believe in tolerance and at the same time say that cannibalism and stoning are A-okay.
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For my fellow Grammar Nazis
23/02/2012 07:12:33 PM
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We are going to need a bigger bumper.
24/02/2012 05:33:44 PM
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lol intolerance *NM*
24/02/2012 09:10:34 PM
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Not intolerance.
24/02/2012 11:06:08 PM
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"Coexisting" = "no belief system?"
25/02/2012 01:10:04 AM
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Not technically, no, but in my experience that is how it tends to work in practice.
25/02/2012 08:39:03 AM
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What?
25/02/2012 11:46:12 AM
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"What?" indeed.
25/02/2012 05:02:32 PM
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I apologize. I can't read that. *NM*
25/02/2012 10:21:09 PM
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What can I say? Keeping it short and to the point was clearly not CONVEYING the point.
27/02/2012 06:17:14 AM
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I feel bad about what I said before, so here it is:
27/02/2012 12:43:54 PM
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Re: I feel bad about what I said before, so here it is:
27/02/2012 03:24:45 PM
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Re: I feel bad about what I said before, so here it is:
27/02/2012 08:40:16 PM
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Also, I'm done here. It doesn't matter if we agree, and these sorts of conversations are
27/02/2012 08:41:13 PM
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I have met them, they are out there; they populate entire schools of philosophy.
27/02/2012 10:34:16 PM
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lol strawman
27/02/2012 11:01:32 AM
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I have known lots of people who believe that; some even realize they believe it.
27/02/2012 02:31:48 PM
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lol false dichotomy
27/02/2012 06:46:36 PM
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That's what I was going to say.
27/02/2012 10:05:51 PM
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Oh, it enters my mind; in fact, it has taken permanent residence there (lol, stfu, omgwtfbbq, etc.)
27/02/2012 10:21:10 PM
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Dont quote Nietzsche. You dont understand him. *NM*
27/02/2012 10:34:08 PM
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I understand him well enough.
27/02/2012 11:10:21 PM
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He did not favor moral relativism and he very much railed against nihilism. *NM*
27/02/2012 11:13:46 PM
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If I ask how a grammar humor thread turned into a philisophical debate, am I going to regret it?
27/02/2012 11:20:59 PM
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Meh and again I say, "meh."
27/02/2012 11:50:35 PM
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So this site is just the reposting of really old internet memes? *NM*
02/03/2012 01:51:26 AM
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