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is their affair; one may hope that in time they will get tired of it, but
in order to induce the proper frame of mind in them it is essential
that we should abstain from following their example. We are conducting
a holding operation, not trying to impose some set of fixed values or
preconceived ideas upon the world. The defense of a free and pluralist
society is not compatible with ideological fanaticism.
