• TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      It’s not an arbitrary decision, Intolerance is the opposite of tolerance. I don’t know how to make this any clearer.

      Intolerance is defined as:

      unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behaviour that differ from one’s own.

      You’ll note that this definition is entirely internal, it is a behaviour based solely on your own actions, not an outside forces opinion of your actions. A man alone on an island could act just as intolerant of an arbitrary opinion as someone immersed in society.

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        2 months ago

        So you agree that jailing someone for voicing their beliefs because you disagree with them is being intolerant?

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          2 months ago

          Now we are back to the paradox of tolerance, which you would realise if you actually tried.

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            2 months ago

            And we’re back to the concept of that paradox being bullshit to begin with.