“I hear you’re writing a book on theology. I hope you have a good title.” “I have the perfect title … ‘Has it Ever Occurred to You That You Might Be Wrong?'” Charlie Brown and Snoopy I recently stumbled upon the following rant about “Free speech on campus” by Pat Condell. You could discard it with the old Simpsons joke: “an ‘old’ man is angry at something”. But what he says in that video is actually very well written. BTW, it also was transcribed — didn’t know crowd-sourced transcripts of YouTube videos were a thing (cool :-)). You find the transcription at dotsub. And yup, intolerance is intolerance, whether it comes from the left, the right, or from where ever. It’s a learning process to be able to tolerate an idea and have a close look at its merits even if you strongly disagree with it. This does not mean changing one’s opinion like a weather-vane, esp. if you developed your prior position based on rational arguments and not only emotions. But it helps to see — if not the full picture — than at least more of the complexity of an issue. And you need a clear picture of [...]
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