Keywords
tolerance, intolerance, childhood innocence
Abstract
In graduate school I was disheartened to find that while the school promoted tolerance as the highest virtue, such tolerance was more often honored in the breach. Tolerance was used as an excuse for hatred and bigotry. This is because it is simply impossible to tolerate everything. One cannot tolerate both childhood innocence and pedophilia (to take an extreme example). One must choose what one will tolerate. In some cases the choice to tolerate some things will unavoidably and perhaps unintentionally cause us to cease to tolerate others.
Recommended Citation
Gee, John
(2014)
"Of Tolerance and Intolerance,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 8, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol8/iss1/5
