Interesting point. Nice catch.

However, neither of these two people see tolerance as a moral issue. They see it as an ethical issue. Ethical issues are about survival of the group. Moral issues are about 'right' and 'wrong' and they stem from religion.

Cancellation is an ethical issue. By limiting the ability to express an opinion, it leads to civil strife. This affects survival, as it affects people living peacefully together.

You said, " and see the left’s attacks on the right as the left’s response to the right’s violation of the long standing “peace treaty” between the left and right factions. "

That never occurred to me. I always thought that the right's response to the left had something to do with their neurology. Studies show that conservatives have very different brain structures to liberals. They operate from the primitive brain - not the frontal lobe. They are responding to danger. The right sees danger in liberalism. So did Plato, by the way. Plato said that liberalism would eventually lead to depravity. (The Republic.)

You're right that the right is attacking every minority. Again, they think that these minorities will bring down the west. This is very much in line with Jean Jacques Rousseau's writing in The Social Contract. He says that the minority must always follow the rules of the majority because there is no other way that either democracy can work.

You said that the terms of the treaty are "People are people and are allowed to live their lives”.

That is definitely not in the American constitution. Women were certainly not considered people. Nor were slaves (that was a later issue). And the creation of the Electoral College was put in place in case the voters got it wrong.

I think the idea that 'people are people' arose in the 60s with the baby boomers (I covered that in my essay on baby boomers.'

In fact, civil rights have gone from A to Z, and it might have been what Plato was thinking when he said that liberalism lead to depravity - that it is not possible for everybody to do whatever they liked, without what they liked eventually affecting (detrimentally)| how other people are doing.

Can you tell me how you define a moral issue? I don't understand how you assume that Chomsky's position is a moral one with regard to tolerance and intolerance.