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[–] [email protected] 131 points 3 months ago (17 children)

Tolerance paradoxically demands intolerance of the intolerant.

[–] [email protected] 148 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It was pointed out to me a while back that the paradox of tolerance is only a paradox if you consider tolerance to be a philosophical position.

In fact, we don't treat it like that. We treat it as a social contract, in which context it is no paradox at all to say that if you aren't tolerant then other people aren't obliged to tolerate you in turn

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This here - the social contract view needs to be widely adopted

[–] HungryJerboa 15 points 3 months ago

Agreed. Respect for what is essentially the golden rule is the bare minimum to be accepted by a rational society.

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