This is how I feel about tolerance.
If I don't find it wrong, I don't have to make an effort to tolerate it. I am already okay with it.
If I have to make myself tolerate it, then I find something so wrong with it that otherwise I would just plain refuse. In that case, why am I making myself be okay with something that repulses me so much? Isn't that wrong?
Toleration is accidents, or relapses, or moments of weakness. You don't tolerate intentional, directed evil, which is of course, what we're always told to tolerate.
This is how I feel about tolerance.
If I don't find it wrong, I don't have to make an effort to tolerate it. I am already okay with it.
If I have to make myself tolerate it, then I find something so wrong with it that otherwise I would just plain refuse. In that case, why am I making myself be okay with something that repulses me so much? Isn't that wrong?
Because more than anything, the wicked crave the power to force your acceptance. They're just like their master in that regard.
That is a great point, I haven't looked at it that way before.
Toleration is accidents, or relapses, or moments of weakness. You don't tolerate intentional, directed evil, which is of course, what we're always told to tolerate.