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Originally posted by Instrument 41
Great point Sherwood. Let me say that intolerance doesn't bother me, reguardless the issue. I see it as a necessary in soceity and i think it has its place. What if there was absolute tolerance for everything? There were no absolutes, no one had and courage of convictions, everything was ok for everybody?What a screwed up world this would be. I beleive that the struggle between 2 sides creates a middle ground, for which most of us live. Intolerance shows us the far left and the far right, and a lot of times for one to find the middle he must go to the extremes. Intolaerance is a lot like prejudice, not many like it but its part of human existance..and I feel it will always be.
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There is a place for intolerence. Some opinions and beliefs do not deserve tolerance. There is no way, say, female circumcision should be tolerated on religous or cultural grounds. Or male circumcsion for that matter. Or slavery. Or child abuse. Or oppression.
The radical athiest takes the view that any religous belief belies a fundamental intellectual bankruptcy, and therefore he cannot tolerate a position predicated on a belief in the existence of a god.
Simple really. Very liberating.