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At 02:43 PM 12/25/2005, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 12/24/05, spike
<spike66@comcast.net> wrote:<br>
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> Can anyone here offer an explanation for this?<br>
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<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,179678,00.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,179678,00.html</a><br>
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> If this story is true, how to we cause it to spread?<br><br>
I don't know much of Senagalese history or politics, nor do I assign
a<br>
high priority to learning it at this time, but I can contribute some<br>
thinking on the spread of tolerance.<br><br>
In general, intolerance is the result of "moral"
decision-making<br>
within too small a context. The world will become increasingly<br>
tolerant of individual and cultural diversity, while becoming less<br>
tolerant of those individuals and groups which violate principles of<br>
mutual growth, as we become increasingly aware of the bigger
picture<br>
via increasing access to information.<br><br>
We can cause it to spread most effectively by developing and
promoting<br>
the tools. The understanding will follow.</blockquote><br>
Yes. And that ought to be one of our preferred goals within
transhumanism - to engage in and tolerance. Further, a strong
framework for knowing boundaries and setting boundaries is also essential
to practice tolerance. Individuals are more tolerant if their
boundaries are respected. Individuals are more willing to be honest
if their identities are respected. <br><br>
Natasha<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a>
<dd>Cultural Strategist - Designer
<dd>Future Studies, University of Houston
<dd>President, <a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy Institute</a>
<dd>Member, <a href="http://www.profuturists.com/">Association of
Professional Futurists</a>
<dd>Founder, <a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts
& Culture</a>
<dd>Honorary Vice-Chair, <a href="http://transhumanism.org/">World
Transhumanist Association</a>
<dd>Senior Associate, <a href="http://foresight.org/">Foresight
Institute</a>
<dd>Advisor, <a href="http://alcor.org/">Alcor Life Extension
Foundation</a><br><br>
</font>
<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective.
</i>
<dd>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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