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Message: <blockquote data-quote="toolkien" data-source="post: 449009" data-attributes="member: 4637">Long philosophical discussions which boil down to how to be perfectly disinterested in what others do unless human life or property is at risk. You can't possibly love everybody, or even like them, as both require data and an a priori reason for establishing a relationship. If you have no reason, you then should be disinterested until some interest puts in a position to value judge. It's the foundation of tolerance and avoiding the impulse to dictate behaviors to others if they are acting peacefully (i.e. are not presenting a clear and present danger to another or their property). Once people learn this basic principal, we can make headway against the corrosive Welfare/Warfare two headed monster we have created that is bankrupting us financially and culturally.  As for Lombardi's hatred of bigotry, it's not too hard to understand as he was Italian. It is not so long ago that Italians suffered from discrimination as bald faced and open as what blacks faced. Lombardi was passed over for a position prior to the Packers when a member of the selection committee said there would be no way a coach he'd hire would have a last name that ended with a vowel. This is also in Maraniss' book. Lombardi felt discrimination first hand and so it didn't have to be some theoretical philosophical position for him.</blockquote>

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