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To: mark silvers who wrote (15668)	5/20/1998 10:16:00 PM
From: Gregory D. John	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Hi, Mark! I agree that, in the real world, more information and understanding of the individual would be required to truly "judge". Perhaps that is the real key to the question of tolerance. Consider a most heinous act of a individual. Without knowing any more about the individual, it is easy to have no compassion and just out right condemn. Is that intolerance? Then you learn more about the individual. A tough day at work? Poor upbringing? Circumstances? Maybe a little compassion enters into the assessment in spite of us. What would you do in that situation? Do you know the individual's family? Did they really do the heinous act alone? Was the individual the mastermind or just the puppet? Can a mastermind be held solely responsible for the actions of the puppets? And vice-versa. Perhaps more compassion? Maybe tolerance and intolerance should theoretically lie completely in the laws of the realm; the society does or does not tolerate this, that, or the other thing. And we, as individuals, should extend compassion even when we know nothing about another individual; and maybe even in spite of what we think we may know. Greg "give'm 'nuff rope" John