"The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant" - "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance."
Monday, December 30, 2019
The Paradox of Tolerance
I came across this on twiter, but they didn't say who the quote was from.
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Textbook Platonism 101....
“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society” – Aristotle.
Karl Poper: “Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant. . . .then the tolerant will be destroyed…”
"we had to bomb the village in order to save the village..."
The first time I have ever cribbed from a Libertarian website (https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/paradox-tolerance), but it bears reading:
"As stated here, and not altogether fairly, the paradox runs:
A tolerant society should be tolerant by default,
With one exception: it should not tolerate intolerance itself.
But Popper never believed anything like this. Rather, he wrote:
I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise.
This is no warrant here for laws against hate speech. On the contrary, Popper appears to have called such laws “unwise.”
To Popper, intolerance is not to be deployed when the utterance of intolerant ideas might make you uncomfortable, or when those ideas seem impolite, or when they get you really mad. Intolerance – if that’s the right word for it – is only warranted when we are already facing “fists and pistols,” or, presumably, worse."
That makes sense.
"Rule of law" doesn't sound like an excess of tolerance to me. Same goes for peer pressure, social conformity, and role models.
Any Calvinists in the house?
Yo They don’t enforce the laws Bob,,..
“Humphrey Hawkins Full Employment Act” codified in law what do we get?
NAIRU...
We need to euthanize all the libertarians... they need to disappear...
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