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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Sun Sep 23, 2018, 12:52 PM Sep 2018

It is my right to hold this turd in my hand!






This skit is basically about the question whether tolerant people are allowed to be intolerant towards intolerant people.

Yes, they are:

1. They don't demand tolerance per se. That's a strawman-argument. They demand that we observe a certain set of rules relating to tolerance in a social and political setting.
2. You can basically ask the opposite question: Why aren't intolerant people intolerant towards intolerance? This again makes clear, that these kinds of questions only make sense if you assume that we are talking about absolute tolerance and absolute intolerance. Which nobody does.
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It is my right to hold this turd in my hand! (Original Post) DetlefK Sep 2018 OP
Absolutely absolute... Relatively relative ..., reACTIONary Sep 2018 #1

reACTIONary

(5,770 posts)
1. Absolutely absolute... Relatively relative ...,
Sun Sep 23, 2018, 10:46 PM
Sep 2018

I didn't watch the skit, but your observation that these qustions only make sense when discussing absolutes - and tgat this is rarely the case - is right on pount. This applies to a variety of other "contoversial" topics, such as individualism vs collectivism.

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