<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/06/2023 00:14, swisscows wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:mailman.33.1686438869.27722.extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">As
long as they don't interfere with me...</blockquote>
<br>
Daniel, that is precisely the problem. They <i>will</i> interfere
with you, if they can.<br>
<br>
Asymmetrical tolerance doesn't work. You can be as tolerant as you
like with a jihadist, an anti-choice proponent (I don't like to use
the term 'pro-life' because that is colluding in their own
propaganda. They are only 'pro' life that hasn't actually started
yet, and are definitely 'anti' actual living people's freedom of
choice) or the chinese communists, but they certainly won't be
tolerant of you and your beliefs. A gay person, or an atheist, in
Saudi Arabia can be as tolerant as they like towards the regime, the
tolerance won't be reciprocated. Same with an accidentally-pregnant
teenage girl in the american deep south, or a proponent of democracy
in china.<br>
<br>
So with intolerant people, the only thing you can do is oppose them.
Or give in to them. There is no neutrality.<br>
<br>
Imagine a couple of scenarios:<br>
<br>
A lesbian atheist in Saudia Arabia (or Iran)<br>
<br>
A poor teenage girl in Kentucky that has been raped and is now
pregnant, and wants to get rid of it.<br>
<br>
What are their choices? How can they live the lives they want to
live?<br>
<br>
Put yourself in their shoes. What would you do?<br>
<br>
For most of the people in this world, "as long as they don't
interfere with me..." isn't a possibility.<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
</body>
</html>