[ExI] India and the periodic table

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 11/06/2023 00:14, swisscows wrote:
> As long as they don't interfere with me...

Daniel, that is precisely the problem. They /will/ interfere with you, 
if they can.

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.

So with intolerant people, the only thing you can do is oppose them. Or 
give in to them. There is no neutrality.

Imagine a couple of scenarios:

A lesbian atheist in Saudia Arabia (or Iran)

A poor teenage girl in Kentucky that has been raped and is now pregnant, 
and wants to get rid of it.

What are their choices? How can they live the lives they want to live?

Put yourself in their shoes. What would you do?

For most of the people in this world, "as long as they don't interfere 
with me..." isn't a possibility.

Ben
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