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> Perspectives matter in the world; and if you make a hard/deterministic rule based on a subjective understanding of an issue followed by projecting it as "what reasonable people should think", you will always get into some shady edge cases

Disagreement has been corner stone of any community. It is healthy in some sense, and might even be required for progress of humankind altoghter. That said...

> What you call intolerance to them is not that at all.

If ignorance, short sightedness, revenge, hatered, jealousy, wickedness is behind a thought or an action, we can universally agree to it being inferior and defective.

Like the OP said, moral and philosophical education along with ability to independently think sets reasonable people apart from others, and I agree.



> moral and philosophical education along with ability to independently think

That's a fairly good description of Machiavelli.




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