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minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up73·1 year agoSolved simply by treating tolerance as a social contract instead of an absolute moral doctrine. Break the contract, lose the protections.
minus-squaretheneverfox@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoWell put. It really is just as simple as “don’t do mental gymnastics”, there’s only a paradox here if you make one
minus-squareryathal@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down25·1 year agoThe paradox of tolerance can only apply to actions though, otherwise you just become the intolerant one that should be ostracized.
minus-squareZron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·1 year agoNo Saying shitty things doesn’t get you a free pass just because “it’s just words” Saying shitty things is an action, and demands appropriate counter action
minus-squareflambonkscious@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoBut speaking is an action. Thinking isn’t
minus-squarephotonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down49·1 year agoWe have to be tolerant to the intolerant, otherwise, who defines what tolerance is?
minus-squarephotonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down45·1 year agoTolerating the intolerant is the price we have to pay to live in a just society.
minus-squareekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down31·1 year agoThat sounds pretty intolerant to me. Can you find the door by yourself?
minus-squareAlDente@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·1 year agoWhy should they leave? They haven’t said anything intolerant. You are being an asshole.
minus-squareekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down16·1 year agoI’m a hypocrite myself so I don’t mind much, but why should your rules apply to me if they don’t apply to you? And also, great explanation. You could make a Ted talk, I’m sure.
Paradox of Tolerance
Solved simply by treating tolerance as a social contract instead of an absolute moral doctrine.
Break the contract, lose the protections.
Well put.
It really is just as simple as “don’t do mental gymnastics”, there’s only a paradox here if you make one
The paradox of tolerance can only apply to actions though, otherwise you just become the intolerant one that should be ostracized.
No
Saying shitty things doesn’t get you a free pass just because “it’s just words”
Saying shitty things is an action, and demands appropriate counter action
But speaking is an action. Thinking isn’t
We have to be tolerant to the intolerant, otherwise, who defines what tolerance is?
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Tolerating the intolerant is the price we have to pay to live in a just society.
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That sounds pretty intolerant to me. Can you find the door by yourself?
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Why should they leave? They haven’t said anything intolerant. You are being an asshole.
I’m a hypocrite myself so I don’t mind much, but why should your rules apply to me if they don’t apply to you?
And also, great explanation. You could make a Ted talk, I’m sure.
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