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Tolerance?
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Putting up with people or beliefs you disapprove of, instead of suppressing them.
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Why might tolerance not be enough?
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To 'tolerate' a group is to disapprove but allow them — leaving them second-class rather than fully equal members.
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Being tolerated vs being an equal?
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Tolerated = 'we'll put up with you'; equal = 'you belong here as much as anyone'. Tolerance is a floor, equality the ceiling.
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Tolerance as a floor, not a ceiling?
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It's a real achievement above persecution, but the goal is genuine equality — fully belonging, not just being put up with.
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Popper's paradox of tolerance?
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If a society tolerates everything, including those out to destroy tolerance, tolerance abolishes itself — so it must be intolerant of intolerance.
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The hidden judgement in 'tolerate'?
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To tolerate something is to disapprove of it but allow it anyway — so tolerance isn't the same as respect.
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The two worries about tolerance together (Go further)?
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It's too LITTLE when it stops at 'putting up with', yet it must have LIMITS or the intolerant destroy it.
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Is tolerance worthless, then?
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No — it's a valuable floor, far better than persecution; the point is to build past it to real equality.
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