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Tolerance? Why? Look: debate is all well and good when there is a matter for debate. Diversity of opinions, though, is not a good thing in its own right. If something is evidently laughable, then there's no value is propagating it as a point of view.

Once again: noone has any rights to their beliefs, because those beliefs might be wrong. If a belief of yours happens to be wrong, or incoherent, then you're obliged to relinquish it. (To deny this would be to suggest that there's a right to be wrong, which is crazy.) There is no virtue in defending a person or a belief just for the sake of defending them. Nor is there any virtue in tolerance for tolerance's sake.

Some statements are not worth defending. The Goat seems to have a wardrobe full of them.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 13:18, Reply)