"Tolerance" is such a truly misguided and inane concept. Ethics applies universally, it's just that there's stuff that's trivially true, like "nationalism is evil," and stuff that's too messy & particular to evaluate with absolute certainty, like which Star Wars film is best.
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Ethics, as a form of logic, can only determine the mechanical truths of how right and wrong are produced given certain initial premises which are always in a sense arbitrary. I like Return of the Jedi best because it's the only film with Ewoks.
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Not all ethics are formal ethics. It's possible to build a coherent ethical system without resorting to modal logic. Also, Empire is the best Star Wars movie. AT-ATs, Yoda, Cloud City, crushing bleakness, Empire has it all. Plus Boba Fett, everyone's favorite well dressed snitch.
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Coherence implies structure even in the absence of formalism, and structure implies logic. I actually don't know anything about modal logic, I'm stuck at first order symbolic logic plus randomly inserted stuff from Linear Algebra, Discrete Math, and Calculus.
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The bigger point was that ethics is not a form of logic, but its own field. We use logic to evalutate the consistency of our ethical claims, but those claims are not arbitrary. Also Tauntauns. I really like Tauntauns.
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They're arbitrary in an existential sense, not in the sense they correspond to nothing or are entirely unpredictable or whatever.
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