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Is Tolerance Good Or Bad

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Where does society draw the line, or has it stopped drawing lines?  Some things tolerated or blatantly glorified now were cause for summary execution without appeal in the past.  As we become more jaded, we accept more viloence, more vulgarity, more evil behavior all under the positive-sounding principle of tolerance.  I once made a play on words that "The world is going to shit 'ecrementially", and it's true.  Anyone trying to stand up for a higher ideal or that says that God would object to whatever gets demonized and turned into a pariah. 
Permissiveness grows.
What was evil's in fashion.
Tolerance then's bad?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014




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Date: 6/10/2014 5:33:00 PM
:) thank you for the reply
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Date: 6/9/2014 8:34:00 AM
Mark,, awesome haiku... Enjoyed the imagery..... Linda
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Mark J. Halliday
Date: 6/9/2014 5:53:00 PM
Thanks for all your comments Linda. I need to take time and look at what others are doing. Hard enough just to think of something interesting enough to submit, let alone comment on others' works.
Date: 6/6/2014 10:19:00 PM
it makes you sure wonder, doesn't it??
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Mark J. Halliday
Date: 6/6/2014 11:20:00 PM
Yes it does. Did you read the comments below the poem?

Book: Shattered Sighs