Tolerance is still a virtue, but like most things it needs to be kept in balance. Perhaps temperance is the most important virtue.
I read about Genghis Khan's slaughter of his opponents and was generally thinking about how brutal life was for so many people back then.
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Euro civilization advanced partly because values like tolerance and anti-clannishness rose over time, allowing econ development & innovation
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Progressive values have been taken too far in today's environment, and they're destroying the west, but they're not all bad all of the time.
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