Graeme Harcourt

August 15, 2023

If you want to root out intolerance, look in the mirror

This quixotic quest to eradicate the supposed opponents of compassion is entirely circular. We all know that those attempting to rectify injustice are the most prone to commit wrongs. 

Intolerance begins at home, and it begins, not with hate but with indifference. Its root is nothing more than an assumption, the dauntless conviction in unadulterated moral purity, in fundamental self-perfection, one that inimically sows discord far and wide. Apart from any technological, economic, or political challenges, we also have a brigade of purists at once urging compassion while refusing to speak to the purported objects of their campaign.

Rarely do they acknowledge a higher power but like an Inquisition suppose themselves an ordained part of furthering its will. Those ignorant enough to transgress their ethics are apostates (who, incidentally, face an ever-starker temptation to revert to others the treatment they have received). It's all incoherent, which is why, I suppose, these noble spirits avoid exposure to those drenched in sin.