tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7519004557208439288.post4064948490092756442..comments2023-08-12T14:41:03.237+05:30Comments on DROPZONE: On Tolerating IntoleranceManjothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14994055246471878110noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7519004557208439288.post-55226767720729397442014-05-22T10:36:47.960+05:302014-05-22T10:36:47.960+05:30100% agreed. If maths allowed for a higher percent...100% agreed. If maths allowed for a higher percentage, I'd agree more. But as the colloquial expression goes - 'couldn't agree more (because I am already at 100% and just can't allow agreement to ooze out of my ears and nose!)'. :). I think I might have said enough about that. I should stop now. Oops! I can't stop! Damn! And again!<br /><br />Alright, that's enough.<br /><br />Just to add - here is my favorite opinionated person in the world saying the same thing - " Tolerance is a weak form of secularism". Do check it out - http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/how-modi-defeated-liberals-like-me/article6034057.ece<br /><br />Kasperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08646977176996978224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7519004557208439288.post-10725517543000360722014-05-05T18:06:39.200+05:302014-05-05T18:06:39.200+05:30Such a heartwarming statement! It's a blessing...Such a heartwarming statement! It's a blessing people like you exist. I agree with you that we need to embrace and love some principles, but what I'm asking for tolerance for everything else, all the principles that you don't believe in - they're okay too. Except when they hurt the planet and the beings in it :)<br />Manjothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14994055246471878110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7519004557208439288.post-35412869820055789762014-05-05T10:33:25.185+05:302014-05-05T10:33:25.185+05:30The anger you felt was communicated to me, as a re...The anger you felt was communicated to me, as a reader - so a very impactful post! <br /><br />"Since I already believe in this religion, and tolerance is the one value that I prize above all others, the rage I feel against intolerance worries me."<br />I have often imagined a time where we grow sick of the word - "tolerance". It's such a bad word. I don't want to be saying that I tolerate a religion, a person or a school of thought. I want to embrace it, identify with it and relate to it. But yes, the first step would be to move from intolerance to tolerance.<br /><br />But we can't embrace intolerance, can we? You have pointed us to a very fine dilemma, I must say.<br /><br />"...your belief that a certain community is inferior should be okay with me too. And yet, it isn't."<br />This is because this belief is at war with the one and only tenet in your religion - "As You Do Not Hurt The Planet And The Beings In It". <br /><br />As long as there are any qualifiers and tenets to the statement - "Everything you do is okay", it's bound to create warring ideas. These ideas will beg us to embrace, tolerate or be intolerant of them. There is no way out of this. And evolution only makes these ideas more complex and tenets and qualifiers multiply.<br /><br />It's impossible for everyone to believe in the same thing. We are the sum of our thoughts and beliefs. And that's also makes us all unique. And it takes all kinds to make a world. We are the kind that that puts down its foot and says, the only thing we won't tolerate is intolerance. Is that too wrong?<br /><br />Keep writing! :)Kasperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08646977176996978224noreply@blogger.com