Thomas, you're missing my point. My point isn't that those things are real: they obviously are not.

My point is that a such a philosophical principle is only valid iff you are comfortable with that same principle being used by your political enemies against you.

Sorry for the late reply will probably be buried, but I don't know how someone in opposition to tolerance has any kind of moral high ground to be any kind of meaningful political enemy. It is like a core aspect of a society to have be some kind of accepting. It's like an open world or closed world problem, and none of us really live in a closed world ultimately.