It involves putting up with things that one does not actually like, and may even consider immoral. We choose to tolerate other individuals, organizations, religions, ideas, sects, or ethnic groups, because we realize that there is a much higher value in forbearance than there is trying to eradicate difference. Toleration is a value superior to loyalty of blood or common heritage. It is superior to ritual nationalist affirmation. Toleration celebrates the human condition because it places the highest possible premium on human life in all its forms.
Toleration is the supreme civic virtue.
Representative parliamentary democracy is the rule in the Republic of Tolerance. Democracy is not only ruling in the name of the people, nor is it simply majority rule. Central to democracy is the constitutionally guaranteed set of rights which protect the part from the tyranny of the whole. The fundamental idea is that the majority rules only because it is a majority, not because it has a monopoly on the truth. It is the right to live differently, or to speak and learn in a different language.