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  • It is a paradox because there’s no objective, universal definition of tolerance. It’s literally impossible to be tolerant of everything. So you’re left with different forms of what intolerance people deem acceptable.

    People make the same mistake about bigotry. It’s impossible not to be a bigot. You just don’t want to be the wrong kind of bigot. Now if only we could all agree on exactly what that was.














  • I wouldn’t say murder falls under intolerance. It certainly can, but not all the time.

    if you’re not actively hurting someone besides yourself, you should be tolerated.

    Who gets to define what constitutes not actively hurting someone besides yourself? Is it just as defined by you or do other people get a say? What do you do when someone decides that not wearing a hijab or extra-marital sex is actively harming others?

    I hope that illustrates why this is not simple at all. It’s incredibly complex.

    And as I was saying in my initial comment, it’s literally impossible to objectively define tolerance. But, you have to choose to tolerate some things and not others (because they’re mutually exclusive). So you end up with different forms of intolerance of behaviors that you deem intolerant.

    Along with that, we decide that intolerance for other reasons (ie, because of a person’s genetic makeup or mode of expression) is itself harmful.

    And we decide that intolerance is acceptable for many other reasons. You don’t tolerate ignorant people. You don’t tolerate people who cannot arrive on time. You don’t tolerate people who are too rude. Intolerance of those aspects

    Now we can find tune and dicker about where that line of injury is, and of course there are special cases where the alleged hurt is spread around and it’s hard to decide how to adjudicate that, but that’s what the law and all its apparatus is for, after all.

    The special cases are the ones where it’s actually clear. The majority of the cases are where we struggle to know where to draw the line.





  • I disagree with that. It’s human nature downvote something you disagree with when given an option.

    It’s best to just acknowledge it and accept it to some degree while still encouraging users to upvote well written disagreements.

    But don’t pretend that it shouldn’t also be used as a disagree button frequently. The two way voting system is a large contributor to what made reddit great. It has some drawbacks, but don’t expect that to change. It’s like asking lead to not be dense.