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A democracy has to tolerate differences in opinion.

• avs733 7y ago
  no, it doesn't. Like literally the purpose of a democracy is to establish government by norms and the establishment of those norms as laws. A democracy exists explicilty to bound law making within a set range of socially acceptable public disourse. To expend a strawman, Jeffrey Epstein seems to think sexual acts with human beings this country views as unable to consent - that is a difference in opinion, but he ended up in jail rather than tolerated. Invite NAMBLA to your next city council meeting and see how that goes. We don't have slaves, but the greeks and romans who had closer to a true democracy surely did. The idea of owning or not owning slaves was tolerated, and debated, in their time - it wouldn't be in our modern democracy.
  • shkkmo 7y ago
    You seem to fail to grasp the difference between belief and behavior. Believing that what Epstein did is OK is a belief. Doing what Epstein did is an action. That said, tolerance of differing opinions exist on a continuum and no perfectly tolerant society exists.