It’s not about being intolerant of views you “don’t like” it’s about being intolerant of intolerant views, that’s why it’s a paradox. Personal feelings aren’t involved only whether the view seeks to persecute another.
It’s not about being intolerant of views you “don’t like” it’s about being intolerant of intolerant views, that’s why it’s a paradox. Personal feelings aren’t involved only whether the view seeks to persecute another.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
And who decides what views are “intolerant”?
TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 1 week 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.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
So you agree that jailing someone for voicing their beliefs because you disagree with them is being intolerant?
TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Now we are back to the paradox of tolerance, which you would realise if you actually tried.