• TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
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    1 year ago

    Absolutely, I’m familiar with the paradox of tolerance but I think it’s always good to spread it around a bit more. How I conceive of it is that tolerance is not a principle but a social contract, and when one side breaks that social contract the other side is no longer beholden to it either.

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      1 year ago

      You and I may have had a very similar conversation back on that “other” site, lol. At least that’s where I first heard about the “social contract” model as a way to explain why it’s not a paradox at all.

      • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
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        1 year ago

        Quite possibly, though I’ve forgotten where I originally learned it so it’s possible we just both learned it from the same place. I’m just glad to see the knowledge becoming more common, it was really annoying during the era when people would be like “Doesn’t choosing not to tolerate nazis make you just bad as them?” The answer’s obviously no, for so many reasons, but people understanding the paradox of tolerance makes it less common to be asked that.