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Tripdoctor t1_j5p21mh wrote

Reply to comment by XiphosAletheria in Argument for a more narrow understanding of the Paradox of Tolerance by doubtstack

Expressing the disdain for the perceived sinful/immoral whatever is intolerance, what are you talking about?

Expressing it is literally the line where it goes from being in your head to being intolerance.

But I’m not always against people expressing it. As it is a good tool to identify the intolerant individuals in society, and publicly shame/mock them. Which is essential for any society hoping to progress.

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XiphosAletheria t1_j5p3ixv wrote

No, intolerance is a refusal to tolerate something. It is not the same as disapproving of something. For instance, my vegetarian boyfriend disapproves of people eating meat, but he tolerates people who do, including me. If he refused to keep anyone in his life who ate meat, that would make him personally intolerant of meat-eaters. If he argued in favor of commiting violence against meat-eaters to try to rid the world of such vermin, that would make him politically intolerant of meat-eaters. It is that last sort of intolerance that Popper claims we shouldn't tolerate, and even then he adds a bunch of caveats limiting when it would be acceptable to suppress such speech.

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Tripdoctor t1_j5p9s6n wrote

See the difference between tolerance and acceptance.

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