Sometimes tolerance is another name for doing nothing.

February 6th, 2006

When you elevate tolerance above common sense, viagra generic and you tolerate things that are intolerable.

We tolerate inner-city violence in the name of racial sensitivity.

We tolerate intolerance and violence from Muslims in the name of respect for religion.

We tolerate repression in China in the name of commerce.

In the real world, generic viagra see tolerance sometimes means “to do nothing” in the face of things that really should not be tolerated.

And we all know what Edumund Burke said about good men doing nothing.

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