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.
They shouldn't be. Tolerance is a vice, a sin. The word itself means that, to passively sit by and ignore a moral wrong.
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.