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My point was that you gain no merit for tolerating them even if you did have something against them. Tolerance is not a virtue. There is virtue in having nothin
by OkayPhysicist 3y ago
My point was that you gain no merit for tolerating them even if you did have something against them. Tolerance is not a virtue. There is virtue in having nothing against as many people as you can.
- jstanley 3y agoSorry to keep quoting parts of the essay in here, but I think the essay puts it better than I would: > To borrow Chesterton’s example, if you think divorce is a-ok, then you don’t get to “forgive” people their divorces, you merely ignore them. Someone who thinks divorce is abhorrent can “forgive” divorce. You can forgive theft, or murder, or tax evasion, or something you find abhorrent. > I mean, from a utilitarian point of view, you are still doing the correct action of not giving people grief because they’re a divorcee. You can have all the Utility Points you want. All I’m saying is that if you “forgive” something you don’t care about, you don’t earn any Virtue Points.