It’s been my sad experience to have met someone, a public school teacher in fact, who was convinced that “something must be done, this is something, so this must be done.” And that “something” was not presented as a moral or ethical imperative, but was to have been “imprisoned for life for first degree murder” verdict against another human being.

Humility, as Friedman presents it, seems as rare in humanity as any other virtue.

What Milton Friedman and you (Steve Littau) described was not humility but the recognition that you are not omniscient. Awareness that one can be wrong or ignorant about many topics may help one to be tolerant, but it doesn’t guarantee it. I know people who readily admit they don’t know everything and aren’t always right but are intolerant of homosexuals, atheists, recreational drug users, or other groups or categories of people.