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kind9 posted...

I agree that morality is fluid and not absolute, which is opposite to what the bible preaches. I think hatred and intolerance exists because ideologies that divide us exist. So we should at least strive to eliminate or minimize the influence of those ideologies.

Two of the greatest mass murderers in history became so prolific via killing their own people. People who shared an ideology. Ghengis Khan is regarded as one of the most violent and destructive people in history and he was actually pretty accepting of other ideologies. Many wars are motivated by things that have no bearing upon ideology. To think that simply getting everyone to believe the same thing would result in unity is about as sensible as believing that getting everyone to eat the same thing would cause it. While it is true that things such as religion have been a cause for war in the past this can be said for many, many, things. Heck, one war was fought over a stool and America and Canada almost ended up in a war because of a pig once.

Intolerance exists because of how humans think. It is extremely easy to form an in-group and out-group bias. Think back to the console wars. There is no reason why someone couldn't have both a Nintendo or Sega console and there was absolutely no reason for it to end up being divisive. Yet hatred and feuds filled the air simply over if you owned Nintendo or Sega. How many Nerds hate Jocks or Jocks hate Nerds simply because that's what they were told to do? How many people do you hate just because they're friends with someone you hate despite that you've never even spoken to them? Your ideology doesn't matter. They are the other. They are not part of the group. Therefore you will hate them even if the only difference between you is that one group likes Kirk and the other Picard.
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