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Yes.
If the "intolerant people" are committing crimes, then you deal with those crimes in the fashion that your politics and morals deem right.
If the "intolerant people" are committing no crimes and you leave them alone as they are leaving you alone, then how is this not ideal?
Sure, in your imagination, they are out there somewhere thinking bad thoughts, and in your imagination this harms you, but that doesn't rise to the level of crime. There is no action that is justified on your part. Taking action makes you more than intolerant, it makes you the criminal.
Those who believe in the paradox of tolerance are nothing more than lazy brainwashers who assumed that everyone would think identical thoughts as they do and believe identical beliefs as they do, without doing the hard work of any actual brainwashing. And when their laziness proves to be ineffective at creating their pod people utopia, somehow for them it's justification to do it the hard way. Really quite bizarre.
Can't justify your intolerance? Call it a paradox.