RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Sharia
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Problematic to force/not force your views on others. Want to change because value gender equality and other group doesn"t. How to deal with things we find distasteful and intolerable. Options do something about it or just let it be. When you find what they are doing intolerant. Pluralism within basic agreement, no real challenge to it, value difference that doesn"t offend us. Don"t have to value everything (pluralism on a degree) value some things but not others/ scale! Appealing to dialogue as a model: learn about other values. Deciding in advance/ absolutist position/ not trying to understand. Struggle within us about our values, one of our values is to value others values tolerance is tested when run up against something intolerant people on their own terms. Self-interested pluralism, appreciate being able to be different. Pluralism more than indifference it is also about understanding other values. Pluralism spreading as a value across the city.
