ABSTRACT
Every exercise of moral concern must be tempered by true tolerance. This leads the neutralist to think that morality and tolerance are opposites, or at the very least that the virtue of tolerance promotes a different end than all of the other virtues. On the contrary: all of the proper ends of human life are threads in the same tapestry. So long as we live, to set aside the loom is neither necessary nor possible. The point is to guide the movements of the shuttle by a deeper study of the design. This is the point of true tolerance: not an abandonment of the moral goal, but its better pursuit; the protection of ends against means.
