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Politics : Evolution
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To: Greg or e who wrote (34222)3/15/2013 9:50:30 PM
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"The shift “from accepting the existing of different views” to “acceptance of different views,” from recognizing other people’s right to have different beliefs or practices to accepting the differing views of other people is subtle in form but massive in substance. To accept that a different or opposing position exists and deserves the right to exist is one thing; to accept the position itself means that one is no longer opposing it."

So true! Modern civilized people recognise the right for superstitious and immoral people to oppose Human Rights and Freedoms (at least in their thought). But civilized people will not accept such an uncivilised and primitive position--as it would mean we are no longer opposing it.

"Nothing can corrupt and disintegrate a culture or a man’s character as thoroughly as does the precept of moral agnosticism, the idea that one must never pass moral judgment on others, that one must be morally tolerant of anything, that the good consists of never distinguishing good from evil."
Ayn Rand
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