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RFayette 🇻🇦
RFayette
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« on: August 03, 2015, 11:28:22 PM »

Equality is one of these words everyone says they're for, yet no one can agree on the definition of.

True.  I don't care much for the term.  Much like "tolerance," it is very nebulous.
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« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2015, 11:29:02 AM »

They'll tell you ''we don't have to be tolerant of intolerance!'' (see the first reply to this thread, for example). Of course, to them, ''intolerance'' is pretty much any disagreement with their cultural agenda whatsoever.

A statement or position is not automatically wrong because it strikes leftists as ''intolerant''. Leftists are not the sole arbiters of morality, and there's good reason to be intolerant of their cultural agenda.

This is true, though I understand from a secular humanist worldview why leftists see things the way they do.  I reject this paradigm, hence why I disagree with their philosophy.
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RFayette 🇻🇦
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« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2015, 01:31:57 PM »

They'll tell you ''we don't have to be tolerant of intolerance!'' (see the first reply to this thread, for example). Of course, to them, ''intolerance'' is pretty much any disagreement with their cultural agenda whatsoever.

A statement or position is not automatically wrong because it strikes leftists as ''intolerant''. Leftists are not the sole arbiters of morality, and there's good reason to be intolerant of their cultural agenda.

This is true, though I understand from a secular humanist worldview why leftists see things the way they do.  I reject this paradigm, hence why I disagree with their philosophy.

What makes you equate liberals with leftists? Liberalism, as a moral philosophy is not 'leftist.'

The two can go together, though I should've said "social liberalism" instead; nearly all leftists are socially liberal by the colloquial definition (at least on Atlas), however, so it's easy to conflate the two.
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