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Actually one of the reasons why the Tau can be so open minded is because they don't have to worry about Chaos in general. Their weaker than average presence in the warp makes it so that Daemons don't go after them often, and they have resistence to the corrupting effects of Chaos. Note that I say resistance, not immunity. If they had to deal with the ever constant threat of Chaos eating away at the heart of their society I think they would be considereably less pleasant.

On that note I think the Tau are in for a rough timein the future. It's true that they have fought all of the major players in the setting at some point or another, but the only enemies that they have in depth experience with are the Orks, the Imperium (and a small portion of it at that!) and the Tyranids. They have onloy really fought a few battles that I know of with the Eldar factions, Chaos or the Crons. They're having a streak of good luck right now, but I get the feeling that the more they expand the darker things are going to look for the Tau.