Tolerance is not necessarily a virtue.
By
Rachel
on December 20, 2007
It is a question of what you tolerate and what you do not. Tolerating people making different choices with their lives that hurt nobody, great. Tolerating people going around hurting other people, less great.
In fact, some of the abuse I know about came from acts of great tolerance. The adults did not interfere at all, but tolerated older children beating up younger children. Very tolerant.
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it doesn't even have to be abuse. I wouldn't tolerate someone sticking bear metal probes in an outlet.
(but I guess this could get into the issue of tolerating suicide).
I think there are m any things that should not be tolerated, but I was trying to go for something simple that most people would agree with as my example. Something not too controversial and without too much of an ick factor.
If we want to discuss what should and should not be tolerated, we would need a long series of claims. Which might happen.
You have a dim view of what it means to be tolerant.
Slavetoreality, if you have a different view, discuss it and explain how my view is not a description of tolerance.
Tolerating everything is not a virtue. I place tolerance next to political correctness on the bookshelf.
Allowing circumstances like those you have described to happen is not a product of tolerance. Tolerance is active not passive, it is the understanding of the underlying validity of an occurance's being, not a permissive attitude towards wrong doing.
I think tolerate (allow) and to be tolerant (show understanding) are getting confused here.
Careful Packers, the pedants are watching.
Not according to the Oxford English Dick Dewey ... it has different entries for tolerate, tolerance and tolerant with tolerate having the additional definition: "to permit without protest or interference". This definition is not listed for tolerant or tolerance. And I have to say, I have always used the word 'tolerate' in that context.
Tolerance is always a virtue (in my book).
Hmmmm.
Tolerance is so ignored that it's ignoration is tolerated.
I am tolerant of your viewpoints :)
Evil should not be tolerated, but as Rachel stated above, what is it that one claims to be evil? For example, I claim polyamory is wrong, bad for society and should not be tolerated. Others would disagree. In either case, all things should not be tolerated.
That's interesting. How are relationships between mutually consenting adults wrong? I suppose if they are abusive, but abuse can (and sadly does) happen in any relationship model and is a separate issue.