Exactly. The “paradox” part disappears as soon as you start viewing things through the lens of a social contract. The intolerant are intentionally and repeatedly breaking the social contract, and are therefore not protected by it.
Not sure where so many of you picked up that “social contract” view, but they seem to have misled you.
The paradox of tolerance applies when people stop using words and move to violence, or stalking someone to drive them insane. It very definitely doesn’t mean that people who say things you don’t like hearing shouldn’t be tolerated.
Exactly. The “paradox” part disappears as soon as you start viewing things through the lens of a social contract. The intolerant are intentionally and repeatedly breaking the social contract, and are therefore not protected by it.
Not sure where so many of you picked up that “social contract” view, but they seem to have misled you.
The paradox of tolerance applies when people stop using words and move to violence, or stalking someone to drive them insane. It very definitely doesn’t mean that people who say things you don’t like hearing shouldn’t be tolerated.