BS: Thought for the Day: April 10, 2003

Subject: BS: Thought for the Day: April 10, 2003
From: Amos
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 03:21 PM

The following is offered as a way of adding some perspective in these over-heated times:

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INTOLERANCE

No loss of flood and lightning, no destruction of cities
and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man
of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his
intolerance has destroyed.

Helen Keller (1880-1968) American author and lecturer

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the Day: April 10, 2003
From: CarolC
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 03:39 PM

...with the exception of the ones that have been destroyed by his greed and lust for power.

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the Day: April 10, 2003
From: Amos
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 04:08 PM

Well, Carol, it kinda goes without saying that you have to be intolerant of another person in order to victimize them for greed or power. A natural extension of the set, so to speak...toleration includes respecting the having and self-determination of others, I would think.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the Day: April 10, 2003
From: CarolC
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 04:09 PM

I think all it really requires is a lack of empathy. I don't know if that would be considered the same thing as intolerance or not.

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the Day: April 10, 2003
From: Amos
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 04:11 PM

Maybe empathy is the internal reality of which tolerajnce is the external manifestation, then.

A