So goes the second objection in a bit more detail. Much of its substance is obviously quite sensible. Count tolerance among the virtues, and you will have certainly set the moral bar fairly high. So too, there is no denying that acts of patient endurance can come from virtue^ semblances and imperfect antecedents or that those who wish to generate these acts will at times stake their hopes on these less than virtuous sources. But surely we can admit these facts without concluding that our ordinary moral mediocrity makes our praise of true tolerance beside the point. If it did, then presumably that same mediocrity would encourage us to forsake our praise of every other moral virtue—justice, courage, and the rest—and quite obviously it has not.