Tolerance
Tolerance is a Difficult Learning, but Possible and Necessary Home Page - Spanish - Setswana Every human being has to face, from birth, ways of thinking, feeling, and acting different from their own, so it is necessary to learn to live with diversity, which is a difficult learning, although not impossible. - Tolerance is not innate; it is learned. Inappropriate attitudes towards these differences include seeing them as errors to be eliminated or punished. - To the intolerant, difference is an error, error is a wrong, and wrong must be eradicated. - The intolerant seeks to replicate themselves endlessly by molding the rest of humanity in their image. But this rejection is not genetic; it originates in ignorance of the other, the belief that one holds the only valid perspective of reality and therefore an "absolute truth," and a fear that this truth will be affected by others' differences. - The intolerant doesn't say: "I don't share your opinion," but ...