Sunday, July 15, 2007

Settling Differences

It occurs to me that there's really a very delicate balance implied in my last post. My rail against "toleration at all costs" implies some way to recognizing fundamental differences and settling them in some way. In a perfect world there would be a vital exchange of ideas where the better argument wins the day. But we have anything but a perfect world.

The idea of "self correcting societies" also implies a general recognition about certain foundational principles of society. Do we still have that?

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