• HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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    No.

    Tolerance is not paradoxical.

    It's a social contract and those who break it aren't protected by it.
    
  • vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    There is only a tolerance paradox if you treat tolerance as a moral absolute. That is, if you treat tolerance as something you must give to everyone regardless of their actions (or anything else), then you run into the paradox that giving tolerance to those who do not reciprocate it actually undermines the nature of your own tolerance by forcing you to defend the intolerant.

    However, if you treat tolerance as a social contract, there is no paradox. Everyone deserves tolerance so long as they are willing to give it in return. If someone is unwilling to be tolerant, then they do not deserve tolerance themselves. No paradox.

    • Brewchin@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      Indeed. I tend to think of humanism as atheism with a moral framework.

      Suspect OP has a different question they’re really trying to ask.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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        OP’s history makes me wonder if it’s an English issue. If OP means liberalism or secularism, I can give an answer for either of those, but it’s not clear at this moment.