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> The illiberal intolerance of your reply increased my suffering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_t

• lliamander 8y ago
  > What is tolerance nowadays? Is it a moral virtue in the possessor, or is it a recognition of a necessity arising from an equilibrium of parties? It often seems to me that we speak as if it was the first, when actually it is the second. My liberalism admits to everyone the right to his own opinion and imposes on me the duty of teaching him what is best; but I am by no means sure that that is the genuine conviction of all my liberal friends. French liberalism does not convince me that it is universal. I am not quite sure how Frederick Harrison or Cotter Morrison would deal with me if they were in a majority. The possession of a clear and definite ideal of society seems to me dangerous to its possessors. The Mediaeval Church had such an ideal: the result was the Inquisition, which was generally approved by the common con­sciousness. http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/acton-acton-creighton-correspondence http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/acton-acton-creighton-corr...
• basic1 8y ago
  Preemptive self-defense, the Bush Doctrine of tolerance.