You Tolerate Too Much
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In the early 2000s I conducted various surveys across different groups of people. Here is one set of results revealing the broad variety of challenges people face on a day to day basis, categorized into the 3 realms of physical, mental, emotional plus a bonus category for spiritual / creative / contribution.
Bottom line...
Tolerance is a double edged sword. If we are tolerant of micro-aggressions they grow to ruin entire civilizations.
We tolerate a relative small number of bad actors (most politicians, many lawyers, many educators, various heads of industry, low-life banksters, and did I mention politicians?) who suppress and pillage the good natured naivety of the majority.
We need to shift collective ethics towards abandoning our naive tolerance of evil. A zero tolerance policy.
At the risk of boring the ethically minded readers, we can probably agree that people in society should behave ethically.
Differences of opinion about what is right and wrong lead us divided. People squabble over narrow issues like abortion rights, employment rights, and housing rights.
Regardless of politically sensitive issues we can and must agree on broader principles of ethics overall: theft, force and fraud.
And yet...
We tolerate...
