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Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> Bev; do you have an answer? 

Of course not!  I thought you had it all figured out...lol..
Worse, I never did regain my train of thought!

Any good answer though would also have to be a good answer on a large 
scale...what would work in a city, should also work on a global scale.

Just for everyone else's sake, the original question was something like 
this:  Where do you draw the line between tolerance and intolerance when 
all else fails and negotiation/compromise doesn't work.  How do you 
settle a conflict..Is it majority rule?  Is it violence? Does it go from 
majority rule to violence until somebody backs down or gives in?  And 
what if, due to beliefs, nobody says 'uncle'...do we fight to the death? 
 If it is majority rule, where is the line for that?  In the South, you 
might find more Republicans than Democrats, in the Northeast, you might 
find more Democrats than Republicans...where do you draw the line and 
say "this area" now majority rules...I guess that is why gerrymandering 
is a big deal, huh. What about on an email list like this...is it 
majority rule, or vocal minority rule, or do you wait for Lee to step in 
and lay down a law?(I think we'd be waiting a while<G>)

Perhaps the lesson is that each individual should stand up for the 
weaker party...Sandy stands up for me, I stand up for you, you stand up 
for Gene, etc....so that pretty soon, that mean old bully James<g> backs 
down because he is outnumbered....we monitor ourselves...So, if we 
monitor ourselves here, why can't we do it out there?  (Hey, it works in 
the movies...ever seen the movie, In and Out..too funny...at the end, 
when Kevin Kline(who came out of the closet) is being maligned by Bob 
Newhart, the whole crowd begins to stand up to support him by saying 
something like Well, I'm Howard's mother, and I'm Gay...(said by Debbie 
Reynolds of all people)....it's a great movie if you haven't seen 
it..Tom Selleck is a scene stealer.
I dunno...just thinking out loud....

Bev



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