7/26/11

The legitimate limit of tolerance

Norway Questions Its Tolerance Of Extremism : NPR

As a staunch advocate of tolerance as an active value which is central to our makeup, when we activate it, this story is a good place to pinpoint the limit that we may place on tolerance. It has precisely to do with the taking of life. And with any taking of life. Including in wars. Taking life, particularly when it is conscious or when there is awareness as in a drone attack, is evil. It cannot be countermanded by saying it is tit for tat save in war where the lex talionis eye for an eye is preferable to overreaching revenge. The Norwegian's action was and remains intolerable. He is personally fortunate to live in a country that does not practice the revenge of the death penalty. In time he may come to see and understand just how intolerable and against any valid understanding of what Jesus was about the evil of killing is.


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