And toleration does not mean the gross violations of human rights from the past will be forgotten. Toleration is a solution to the fact of ethnic, religious, political and human differentiation. At bottom, it entails finding ways of accommodating or putting up with such differences. 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.