• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    No. People who call out the ‘tolerance paradox’ are misunderstanding social tolerance. Tolerance of other humans is part our social contract to live with each other without violence. If you abandon the social contract by being hateful or violent to others, you are no longer protected by it. There is no paradox.

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      by definition it is if you tolerate the intolerant, intolerance increases