Subject: Re: [Homestead] Intolerance, was Christian faith
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:00:50 -0400
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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"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from
the government and I'm here to help.'" Ronald Reagan
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