Why do you think tolerance is an important virtue that is required in political parties , individuals and religious bodies
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Answer:
The attempt to distinguish between degrees of severity, or differences of intent, is considered to be offensive. There is an ethical imperative to think of varied events as being substantially ‘the same’, requiring the same words, the same response, the same punishment.
Yet there cannot be a sexual morality, or a legal judgement, unless we make distinctions. Relations cannot be guided, checked, punished, approved or disapproved, unless we weigh the gravity of acts, and judge the intent of those who carried them out.
Explanation:
Recent “post-modernist” skepticism on the social and political value of tolerance has apparently produced higher levels of political polarization, especially in the U.S. One way to understand this development is to see the rejection of traditional doctrines of tolerance as a product of the regime of “political correctness” in the colleges and universities; and one may suspect as well that many a college and university has become a kind of institutional constituency of the major political parties and groupings. On the one hand, there are the hyper-liberal universities, often all too willing to suppress freedom of speech and open discourse, for the sake of “protecting” students from “abuse;” and on the other hand, there are any number of denominational universities, committed to universalizing a particular religious mission or doctrine, plus an array of newer “for-profit” universities which appear to be more oriented to serving the needs of business.