Tolerance

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Tolerance has come to imply a systematic effort to alter one's own natural or cultural reaction to someone else's culture or practice from a state of negative critique to positive affirmation. If one doesn't think, for example, that a homosexual, profligate, polygamous, transgender, materialistic, life-negligent, ephebophilic, or artificially egalitarian lifestyle or regime is morally acceptable, one acquires the positive duty to alter one's world view to accommodate the objectionable in a more positive light, and to alter one's religious beliefs and practice to put all behaviors involving two or more consenting persons on an equal moral plane. Any other approach to morality is not to be tolerated.