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>Tolerance of intolerance is intolerable. You say that as if it was some law written in stone, whereas it's nothing more than a thought experiment by an influe
by moralestapia 5y ago
>Tolerance of intolerance is intolerable.
You say that as if it was some law written in stone, whereas it's nothing more than a thought experiment by an influential philosopher (which, in itself, is far from an absolute authority wrt how humans should behave).
- anigbrowl 5y agoTrue, but every system needs some exception handling. The US Constitution is a long-running system but contains several broad exceptions relating to war because that's an existential problem.
- moralestapia 5y agoRight. I think of the exception handling layer as the human part of a trial that is supposed to look at the spirit of the laws rather than the textual interpretation of them, but in practice it's far from perfect, I know.
- raxxorraxor 5y ago> a thought experiment by an influential philosopher Plus, this particular philosopher would very likely display a lot of intolerance against those proposing its usage so generously. And he would bite himself in the arse for even stating it because of course people misunderstand the meaning.