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I've never seen anything of any substance in the (so-called) "Paradox Of Tolerance."
"Tolerance" is of no use to me or anyone else - we don't owe people "tolerance," we owe each other mutual respect. If you are dead-set on proving yourself unwilling of giving mutual respect (such as, for instance, fascists or capitalists) you disqualify yourself from that paradigm - zero "paradoxes" required.
You just used different words to describe exactly the same thing as the OP.
No, actually. They rephrased it in a way that results in the opposite meaning. First they lowered the stakes from "we will not tolerate you in our society" to "mutual respect" which is very weak and vague language. Mutual respect is something fascists love both giving and receiving. Superficial civility is how they play the game. While they gain influence in a government they use police power to protect themselves from and later actively suppress protestors and activists while extolling the virtues of civility and the 'marketplace of ideas'.
What @[email protected] said is exactly what I would expect a fascist would.
Where I'd say the term "tolerance" matters is that some people will take negative actions against others in their lifetime - the question is how much leeway you give them on it.
Say a guy you've never met steps into a shop you own, and immediately tells you to "Back the hell off, dipshit." Ostensibly, he's broken the rule of respect, and should receive none - but tolerance would suggest that if, a minute later, he says to you "...Look, I'm sorry for yelling. Everyone I've met today has treated me terribly and I lashed out." then the social contract is preserved.
Tolerance acknowledges people are not perfect, and will make mistakes. The paradox of tolerance helps us recognize when they're not mistakes.
That definition of tolerance isn't the one that's being used in this thread and I don't think it's particularly useful to substitute it into a phrase it's not intended in
No. I didn't.
Why do you think we owe one thing but not the other?
You do understand the difference between toleration and respect, right?
What do you see as the difference between tolerance and mutual respect?
I differ between respect for people as human beings and respect (tolerance, if you will) for their ideas and actions
Sure, it's possible to respect someone at a baseline human level while also not agreeing with their actions. That doesn't encompass tolerance as I understand it, so let me run these by ya:
If you don't respect someone's ideas or actions, what would you intervene and prevent them from doing, if anything? What decisions would you trust them to make for themselves? How much effort would you put into empathizing with them?
This might be fine sentiment in an idealistic way but step outside and see where we're at.
There's absolutely nothing idealistic about it... you literally entrust your fate to it every damn time you drive your car.