Tolerance for opposing points of view is important for maintaining any healthy society. In fact, such a society should relish disagreement as the only true way forward. If all agree, there is nothing more to discover, nothing to drive us onward, which, arguably, is a significant part of what makes us who we are. However, the way in which we handle those differences is what will ultimately define us. It is more valuable to have a unified community possessing divergent views than one of uniformity and enforced presumptions.
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