• TheSaneWriter
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    121 year ago

    The paradox of tolerance isn’t a paradox. This meme’s body says “Tolerance is not a moral precept - Yonatan Zunger”, which essentially means that tolerance isn’t a fundamental moral belief, it springs forth from other beliefs and because of that is not absolute. The meme itself is saying that arguments that use the paradox of tolerance are just a proxy, that what the person using the argument is trying to argue for is that people should be ok with their bigotry. How I personally conceive of tolerance is that it’s a social contract, where if one side chooses to break the contract then the other side no longer has to obey it either.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      Oh okay. I can read I that way now, when looking at it that way.

      Usually I’ve seen this “paradox” in the context how how you shouldn’t tolerate intolerance.

      • TheSaneWriter
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        31 year ago

        Ah, fair enough. I suppose to be technical, saying you shouldn’t tolerate intolerance is a semantic paradox but not a logical one.

    • im stuffOP
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      31 year ago

      appreciably sane and concise summary of the position illustrated in the meme. thank u TheSaneWriter keep up the good work 👍