We will live and let live, but not because we have managed to combine objection and restraint, but rather because we believe nothing with conviction, or failing that, be-cause we accept uncritically what our recent ancestors, courageous and upright, would have found abominable, intolerable. Either way, the tolerance we are encouraged to exercise in practice conspires with our meager virtue and lands us in a contemptible nihilism, a traitorous moral flabbiness. On this account, tolerance is a kind of vice in disguise.