“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.”
– Aristotle
… Where once tolerance was the discipline of leaving people in peace to go about their lawful business insofar as it did not harm others, in spite of one’s disapproval of what they did, it is now a demand for total acceptance, approval and even celebration of what one previously found aberrant or even abhorrent.
…This notion of tolerance is a one-way train, of course. Everyone has a moral (and increasingly a legal) duty to spare the feelings of members of an officially certified minority. But members of that minority have no duty – legal or otherwise – to spare the feelings of everyone else. They assume the right to be constantly ‘in your face,’ and for you to say nothing in return.
(Anthony Daniels, National Review 5/14/12)