ABSTRACT
Developing a robust form of toleration is, as the last chapter showed, a complex process, one that is never easy and never guaranteed. It requires, most importantly, the development of a community built on shared goals in which toleration is not seen as a threat. The practices that must develop, then, are not just the practices of toleration, but also the practices that surround that common goal. The latter practices create the trust that is necessary for a deeper form of toleration; with luck, they may even promote genuine understanding between people. In any case, once someone can trust members of a different group, then she will no longer begrudge her toleration of them and, at minimum, she will no longer resent the diversity that others represent. That sentiment, I take it, is the minimum requirement for a more robust form of toleration in which toleration is seen as a good in its own right. Thus, a minimal form of trust is needed before toleration is possible, that toleration makes a deeper form of trust easier, and that deeper trust can lead to a more robust form of toleration. To become established, trust and toleration must feed on each other in a virtuous cycle.
