<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/26/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Natasha Vita-More</b> <<a href="mailto:natasha@natasha.cc">natasha@natasha.cc</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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At 02:43 PM 12/25/2005, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="http://">On 12/24/05, spike
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> Can anyone here offer an explanation for this?<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></span>
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></blockquote></div><br>
That's beginning to sound like tautology.<br>
Identity is bound up with culture and different cultures have different
boundaries. What happens when their freedom impinges on your freedom or
vice versa? Who draws the boundary?<br>
The answer is either:<br>
a) The most powerful<br>
b) Neither, as both relinquish elements of their culture through compromise.<br>
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and if one is not willing to compromise?<br>
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Dirk<br>
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