"Toleration is one of the foundations of this country, but the minute you begin to extend that toleration to individuals who will not reciprocate, you're going to eventually be hung by your own rope."
Individuals like you, for example?
I am prepared to extend toleration even to you, even if you don't "believe" in reciprocation to people you "believe" won't reciprocate to you. The difference between what you are trying to say, and what I said, is, of course, that belief cannot become an action that breaks the law. (Ergo- the Nazis may have meetings, and they may march, but they cannot DO things to other people that would harm them in a physical way). The groups I mention are legal, and people have a right to belong to them, even if you or I find the groups repugnant. Some people here find liberals repugnant after all- I'd hate to see those folks deciding who to hang and who to tolerate. Some of the groups you mention are criminal enterprises. You have committed several fallacies- can you figure out which ones?
If freedom doesn't mean being able to believe things that are repugnant to some people, it means nothing. The freedom to believe what everyone else believes, or what other people think you should believe isn't freedom- it's simply a tyranny of the majority. It's easy to be tolerant of things that don't bother anyone else- the only toleration that counts, is the toleration that is hard to give. |
