“Tolerance”
Proposition:
Tolerance is recognizing, understanding and respecting
the ideas and beliefs of others WITHOUT SHARING THEM. Tolerance is not an obligation to agree with
everyone. A tolerant person is not required to abandon his or her own personal
moral code. A tolerant person may
believe that certain actions, attitudes and beliefs are absolutely wrong or
even immoral. Any person who agrees with
everything is absolutely wrong. Those
who do not allow other people to believe that certain actions or attitudes are
immoral are, themselves, intolerant. We
may, therefore, respectfully criticize the actions or attitudes of others and
still be tolerant. We must always
respect and care about the feelings of others, because human beings are,
most times, unable to directly alter their feelings, even when those human beings
acknowledge that their feelings are based upon erroneous facts. We may, therefore, decide that a person is
absolutely wrong and still not condemn that person for his or her feelings
about the matter.
Question: Do you agree with
this? If not, would you be tolerant of
someone who held this view?
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