cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6541859

Wiki - The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually ceased or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

  • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I understand the paradox of tolerance. This “social contract” stuff is BS, though.

    “Social contract” is made up by people who don’t understand the paradox of tolerance. ITT: many of them