Re: tribal violence (was: RE: would you vote for this man?)

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Steve Davies wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
> To: <extropians@extropy.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:05 PM
> Subject: Re: tribal violence (was: RE: would you vote for this man?)
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>>On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Amara Graps wrote:
>...
> This is clearly true but not enough by itself imo.
>
> Steve Davies

But it's also true that religious intolerance it proportional to the
strength of the next-to strongest religious faith. As well as being
proportional to the strength of the strongest faith. If you have
several competing faiths, each around 20%, with 20% uncomitted, then you
have a ground for tolerance. But if several of those faiths agree on
some point, then deviation from that point may be visciously suppressed.
  (E.g., polygamy and the Mormons.)

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