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Fi, infosec-aspected

This view is useful.

"Tolerance" is not an absolute. Refusing to abide by the terms -

e.g. promoting views that deliberately oppose those of tolerance -

constitutes a breach, and thus those actions are not covered.

Easy.

The paradox of tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance Not as a moral standard but as a social contract.

If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, they are not covered by it.

In other words, the intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of tolerance.

Since they have breached the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by its terms and their actions should not be tolerated.
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gildilinie

@munin sure, okay but what's going on with that cube

Fi, infosec-aspected

@gildilinie

it's an apparently paradoxical structure that ceases to be a paradox if you see it as just a drawing.

Danielle Crawford

@munin exactly! It’s a rule set, not a definition of physics. Heck, it’s not like it’s Russell’s paradox.

Fi, infosec-aspected

Which, thinking this through, means that a Code of Conduct can be phrased as describing a behavioral contract amongst the members of a community, with the penalty for breach being ejection from the community.

Heh. This has a lot of useful ancillary thoughts attached...

Fi, infosec-aspected

Aha, "A code of conduct is explicit documentation of a social contract"

I like that framing a lot.

Sister Rock Star

@munin

I saw a gay liberal Israel supporter post this exact same meme and almost threw the fuck up

Floppy πŸ’Ύ

@munin That's a great way to frame and look at it.

That means tolerance is not something somebody has or not, but exists between people. A form of mutual relation that both (or all) parties necessarily need to contribute too.

Like a dialogue. Communication can be one-way, monologues can be exchanged. But when one stops contributing to a dialogue, there is no dialogue anymore.

So if one party ceases to uphold the shared value of tolerance, there is no tolerance present for anyone anymore.

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