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el_bryanto

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12. Tolerance is only of value if you are open to the possibility you might be wrong

Reply to sarisataka (Original post)

Mon Sep 28, 2015, 04:22 PM

Sep 2015

If you are convinced of your correctness than there's no use for it. For some on this board, their position on religious issues is so clearly correct that allowing for alternative points of few is the equivalent of a math teacher allowing all answers to 2+2 to be correct.

Bryant

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Why is tolerance so difficult? [View all] sarisataka Sep 2015 OP

I doubt those in the thread act that way in person. rug Sep 2015 #1

I think you are right about sarisataka Sep 2015 #2

this has been studied homogenization. captainarizona Sep 2015 #3

I saw that thread yesterday when just 4 replies TexasProgresive Sep 2015 #4

Excellent post, TP. brer cat Sep 2015 #5

As I noted in the post above brer cat Sep 2015 #6

I suspect the kind of people who get offended suffer from "ambiguity panic." phantom power Sep 2015 #7

Until I voluntarily removed myself from the Religion group Fortinbras Armstrong Sep 2015 #8

Well, at the very least, kentauros Sep 2015 #9

Nail on the head Starboard Tack Sep 2015 #10

Thank you :) kentauros Sep 2015 #11

Starboard Tack gelatinous cube Dec 2015 #14

Tolerance is only of value if you are open to the possibility you might be wrong el_bryanto Sep 2015 #12

I've been called a "coward" thucythucy Nov 2015 #13