Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Tolerance and Indifference

Interesting (but possibly misleading) quite from Forbes: "It is easy to be tolerant when you do not care." -Clement F. Rogers

I understand this to mean that indifference, carelessness, or just plain laziness can sometimes look like the virtue of tolerance. I do NOT believe that tolerance is the same as carelessness, or that the basis of tolerance is indifference, or that a tolerant man is just intellectually lazy or morally compromised.

But it can happen.