[quote=@Penny]
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Sure and in my professional life I deal with all manner of people who I am obligated to treat a professional manner. That is basic ethics. 

However, In my personal life or in the personal capacity of my professional life, I dont see that it is so clear cut. I get to choose who I associate with in my personal life and it seems cowardly to just pretend that we can draw up a politics and religion curtain and pretend those opinions don't exist. It is utilitarian to do so and it certainly is the option most people choose, but I don't know that it is the moral option.
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You get to make that call for yourself. Do, please, make up your own mind on it. My recommendation though is..... like..... on a purely numbers game, the average person is not better than everybody else they meet, and thus the average person should probably think twice about playing the arbiter of civilizational morality. You don't have to ignore anything. A grown person should be able to have friends they don't see eye to eye with on everything -- even big things. 

WHAT I'M DRIVING AT IS -- you're talking as though tolerating a difference of opinion is [i]morally wrong[/i]. To me this is literal insanity, or at least a very quick pathway to it. Mental Apartheid? Political segregation? Pick your label. It's icky.