I am perfectly willing to respect your right to believe anything you say. I am only willing to respect what you believe if you can support it with evidence.
I think the problem here is not so much intolerance for different beliefs as an insistence that all opinions be given equal weight...I am perfectly willing to respect your right to believe anything you say. I am only willing to respect what you believe if you can support it with evidence.
This is actually a really important distinction, and I agree that fact-based views should be given more weight than those that are not. For me, I tend to respect the belief as the right, unless it's something that I am simply opposed to.
I think the problem here is not so much intolerance for different beliefs as an insistence that all opinions be given equal weight. As Asimov put it, "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Daniel Patrick Moynihan reminded us that everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.
I am perfectly willing to respect your right to believe anything you say. I am only willing to respect what you believe if you can support it with evidence.
This is actually a really important distinction, and I agree that fact-based views should be given more weight than those that are not. For me, I tend to respect the belief as the right, unless it's something that I am simply opposed to.