"Tolerance" gives me room to say, "I think you're wrong, but I'll defend your right to be wrong." "Pluralism" suggests, much more strongly than most folks admit, that there isn't such thing as right and wrong - and no such thing as truth and error. As it is practiced more and more in America, pluralism tends to require that you not only leave room for your neighbor to believe what he believes, but that you also refrain from disagreeing with it. There's a world of difference between the two perspectives. Tolerance promotes civility combined with clear thinking. Pluralism promotes civility combined with mushy-headedness.
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Re: October and November Digests

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#1 · December 8, 1997, 4:14 pm

Posted by: Bowerbird <Bowerbird@...>

larry, thanks again for archiving these digests.
they are a real resource.

i was surfing the web on my girlfriend's machine at her work
(at u.c.l.a., where she seems to be hooked into the mainframe backbone,
because it's _very_ fast), and i looked at all the f.b. sites out there.

many of you have some excellent sites!
congratulations!

the _only_ thing i thought was missing were some pointers
to larry's archives, which i think are extremely valuable.

keep up the good work, everyone.

-bowerbird

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