Could the judgment that precedes acceptance, the coming to understand a difference well enough to recognize that it deserves to be acknowledged and respected, turn out to be more difficult than the one that precedes endurance? Yes, in a particular case, but not in general. In general, the tolerant are disposed by habit to respond well to those commitments and actions, those persons and lives, that are objectionable precisely because they depart from some important norm. In every instance, a right response—whether acceptance, endurance, or some other—will require sympathetic attention to those persons and lives. It will require the hard work of coming to understand those commitments and actions in relation to this norm. In this, endurance and acceptance are on equal footing.