> -----Original Message----- > From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:46 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: LOLCreashun > > I read this today and thought it was poignant: > > This I Believe: Learning True Tolerance > > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16505529
This is my favorite of all time: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5015557 "Tolerance" is great, wonderful and desirable (in most cases)... but nobody that preaches it actually provides pragmatic solutions to the basic fundamental problem: how does tolerance work when ideals are both opposed and in direct conflict? Tolerance of the type in the essay you link is achievable only as a partnership: amongst those that agree to disagree. But how can tolerance be an answer when a single resource is in play? How can the North-going Zax and the South-going Zax (who meet face to face in the Prairie of Prax) be tolerant of one another, without changing their beliefs, when they are in direct conflict? Even Dr Suess didn't have an answer for that one. How does the tolerant mind suggest this is worked out? In the creation/evolution debate a single resource, our children's education, is at play and both sides will only be truly happy if the other loses completely. (Then of course there are the many, many cases where tolerance is a bad thing. Should I be tolerant of a racist? A pedophile? A homophobe?) There is no real middle-ground, no true opportunity for tolerant compromise: for one side to "win" the other must "lose". Creationists will not accept a compromise where the bible is not literally true and science is taught with no biblical veto and evolutionists will not accept a compromise where evolution is marginalized and bad science is taught. To quote Penn from my link "Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong." But of course, as we see here, with God (at least as defined by the Creationists) we can't agree on reality and cannot learn where we are wrong. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247195 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
