Tolerance

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

> > I am trying to say that tolerance is one of the terms the West uses and has
> > used in "brutally asserting its power and terrorizing the weaker",
> > [...]
> 
> The West does that any way, whether or not it calls it tolerance or
> White Man's Burden or Manifest Destiny or whatever, so why blame it on
> the buzzwords they use? I'm just not ready to discard the concept of
> tolerance because it's used as an empty buzzword.


Why are you guys out there in the West like this? Doug? Why
can't you be more like us here in the East. 

"If the sign of life is in your face
He who responds to it
Will feel secure and fit
As when, in a friendly place, 
Sure of hearty care,
A traveler gladly waits.
		---Lao Tzu