More than mere toleration

• Nussbaum - doesn’t religion deserve more than toleration, e.g. respect:

  • Mere toleration: you disapprove but you have to put up with them.

  • Respect is ambiguous:

    • 1. recognition respect: “you ought to respect his feelings”

      • respect for people in virtue of them being people

    • 1. appraisal respect: “I respect her intellect”

      • admiration

  • People conflate 1 (which is uncontroversially owed to strangers), but bait-and-switch with meaning 2.

    • Nussbaum’s example: Roger Williams founded Rhode Island and discovered the native americans were more similar than he expected.

      • This still doesn’t justify appraisal respect.