Re: pessimist
Brendan McKennedy (suburbantourist@hotmail.com)
Sat, 07 Feb 1998 22:08:47 -0800 (PST)
>I don't think the answer to perceived intolerance is more intolerance,
and I
>don't think an intelligent response to different opinions about sexual
>morality is name-calling (homophobism). Homophobia does exist. I
don't
>think everything that is called homophobia is homophobia, however, and
I sure
>don't feel anyone has the responsibility to change their beliefs to
suit
>others--homosexuals or fundamentalists...
>
>Jim
>
Or Nazis? Or Klan members...?
I disagree. I think the answer to intolerance IS intolerance. I refuse
to tolerate hate. But I don't believe in INGORANT intolerance. Once
I'm pretty sure I understand someone's philosophy, if I find it
unacceptable and hateful and dangerous, I refuse to tolerate it. I
don't think that's ignorance; I think it's ethics.
The problem, of course, is how to reconcile a world where evey set of
ethics is different from the other. I don't have the answer to that,
and I don't believe anyone else does either. But I never suggest
bending your well-thought--or well-ACQUIRED, rather--morals in the name
of tolerance.
Brendan
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