Tolerance

14 Sep 2006

I say it again, respect is the key.
Treat people how you wanted to be treated yourself.
kiss

Gem. x

15 Sep 2006

15 Sep 2006

Quote by loveh4s
Tolerance.
Just because we are tolerant of others opinions does not mean that we do not have our own which we express. The test of tolerance is not do we express our own belief, but do we suppress the belief of others. I know of no swinger who has shot a vanilla or anyone else over his beliefs.
Tarvis.

Good point.
I hope I've never met anyone that would shoot someone else! :dry:
But statistically, people are most likely to be murdered by a close friend or relative...
glad few of us have access to dangerous weapons! lol

Least I hope this is the case... :shock: wink

Holly
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My weapon is test regularly and certified safe.
I don't know which of the many possible lighter or darker meanings to attach to this, though I can see that my attempt at humour has not lightened the mood generally. Note to self: don't try to be funny unless it just happens naturally. rolleyes

It's lighthearted and healthy. :lol:

15 Sep 2006

Quote by loveh4s
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i would more than likely had to hit him......i don't have your training in restraining people so a punch up would have been my only choice to over power him,sometimes you have to stoop to their level to protect yourself......i have to ask....was he drunk,i mean how could you have possibly upset him by just reading a book minding your own buisiness?

This may or may not be the case with all bullies...but I think when I was in a similar situation, the fact that I was reading and quiet made me seem like someone that wouldn't be able to defend myself. It was probably true at the time, I'd been up all night working and was tired and full of cold too on the day.
The woman came on the train making a lot of noise and I think that a lot of commuters were thinking that she seemed like trouble but not saying anything. She had some kind of complex about their thinking she was inferior and she picked on me reading particularly as a symbol of learning, she said she thought that I must think I was better because I read and that I must be a very dull person with no life. sad

You have a point confident people tend to be more tolerant. ......but I know someone is going to say not.

15 Sep 2006

Quote by PoloLady
Rather than asking are weâ€¦ I think a more pertinent question is should we be?
I for one am happy to demonstrate occasional snippets of intolerance towards bollocks, bullshit, lies and hypocrisy.
I rarely feel guilty for sometimes lacking the patience to be more tolerant of blatant closed-minded ignorance and arrogance.
I am proud to throw tolerance out of the window on occasions, ....

We are far to tolerant of some in Britain. It is about time that we dealt with the antisocial side of Britain by locking them up, putting them in the stocks for public humiliation or just hang them. We would have a far better society, but in the most part I am tolerant.
So good point Polo I am with.
Travis.

15 Sep 2006

Quote by little gem
One of the most intollerant, bigotted and predjudiced people I knew lived and came from a segregated, marginalised and ridculed fringe society group. You'd think that having put up with the abuse and horrid behaviour of others that they would exhibit greater levels of tollerance and understanding towards others... this simply was not the case.

We do what learn to do.