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by adamsb6 1150 days ago
This sounds like the motive for religious war. Are we not tolerant enough to let other peoples have their own political systems?

It took a couple hundred years for Europeans to stop killing each other in the wake of the Reformation. Maybe we still haven't gotten over the instinct that somewhere, someone is doing it wrong and we have to do something about it.

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> This sounds like the motive for religious war. Are we not tolerant enough to let other peoples have their own political systems?

You seem to be conflating morality with religion. There's overlap, but they're not the same.

> Maybe we still haven't gotten over the instinct that somewhere, someone is doing it wrong and we have to do something about it.

OK, see about that: are you tolerant enough to let your neighbor non-consensually beat his wife for being disobedient? Rape his kids? If you feel those things are wrong, do you think that's an instinct you should "get over"?