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Ganked from Pharyngula, who credits it to James Trumm ... I'm posting it here because I want to remember it when times aren't so good (and these ideas aren't generally held). Slightly reformatted.

... the core values of the open society --

• the ability to think for oneself,


• to draw independent conclusions,


• to express dissent when judgment and common sense tell you something is wrong,


• to be self-critical,


• to challenge authority,


• to advocate for change and


• to accept that there are other views, different ways of being, that are morally and socially acceptable.