re: #642 Sharmuta

I agree. The longer we allow them to push without standing up and saying “enough!” the longer this problem is going to stay. We can’t keep putting off this confrontation in our own ranks. To do so only delays the inevitable and prolongs the suffering.

I have quoted the french phenomenological philosopher Paul Ricoeur here before:

The one thing that tolerant people cannot in all good conscience tolerate is the coercive intolerance of others.

I can also paraphrase his maxim in another, very relevant context:

The one thing that reasonable people cannot reasonably accept is the coercive imposition of unreason by unreasonable others.