Tinder begins as one might expect, by acknowledging the hard facts of disagreement and difference and by pointing out the challenges that accompany them. Maintaining civil peace is one such challenge. Maintaining the confidence of one’s convictions while keeping company with various differences is another. As Tinder assumes roughly Fletcher’s account of un- stable tolerance, it hardly surprises when he insists that the virtue solves the first challenge only as it exacerbates the second. “The idea that there are numerous and conflicting truths, or, to put the same idea in other words, that there are numerous and conflicting illusions—all shaped mainly by the historical situations of those clinging to them—is, for many people, nearly irresistible73 The assumption that tolerance is essentially unstable only confirms this mood of temptation and threat. Tolerance ^easily becomes acquiescence in the submergence of truth into a shifting variety of opinions and impressions.”74