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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Keith Feral who wrote (8020)	1/10/2007 2:59:20 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 15994

Encouraging free will and tolerance is far from setting a standard. It is exactly setting a standard. The standard that free will and tolerance are good, and that lack of such things is bad. Even if its a standard you only apply to yourself (and I don't think it is, I think you want other people to be tolerant and encourage them to be tolerant and I'd support such encouragement), it is still a standard. You might have more of a problem with harsh enforcement of a standard, but enforcement, and esp. harsh enforcement, is different from merely setting a standard. OTOH certain standards probably have to be enforced, maybe harshly at times. We would disagree as to the exact list, but I'm sure there would be elements of common ground. For example we both would not just accept the standard that murdering innocent people for no reason is wrong, we would want it enforced. Maybe the problem you have is not with the setting of standards, or even the enforcement of standards, but rather with the particular standards that are set or enforced? Tim