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Yikes. Maybe this is why we tend to get less politically tolerant as we get older.

• Redilon 4y ago
  Anecdotally people in their mid/late twenties + thirties are often the most tolerant. Teenagers and young adults are often more extreme in their views and hence often less tolerant. I'd argue the reason some grow less tolerant in the later half of their life is just that people often just stop giving a shit.
  • ip26 4y ago
    Or perhaps they grow tired of tolerating things that (empirically) keep leading to the same bad outcome. Also known as wisdom, when cast in another light.
    • TeMPOraL 4y ago
      Yup. Same conclusion I accidentally reached today, randomly thinking about the adage that old people lean a certain way. Perhaps it's not stupidity, perhaps it's just experience and less emotional volatility. They've experienced how easy it is to be an earnest believer and activist for an idea that later they learned to be misguided, or completely wrong. They've understood that real life is more sophisticated, that simplistic ideas, even pursued with best of intentions, will do more harm than good. There may be some degree of exhaustion and no longer caring about things too, of course.