Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12

I'm worried about you Papa.

These are words from a wise man! And indeed, the word "tolerance" may have to be re-defined altogether, if society is to live in peace.

Just have a close look on the creation of the word tolerance. It comes from latin tolerare which means suffering. In the early middle age the king would like to 10 % taxes and the people have fought a bloddy war against that. Then the church created the word tolerance and praised it from the pulpit as a virtue ;-) So we got manipulated with words since  centuries.

Well for the most part you right I do my best to be tollerent of everyone. Yet at times I just can not stand how intollerent some people can be. In those situations I try to simply avoid them since I can not stand them yet I don't wish to be intollerent it seems avoiding them helps.
Thank you for this interesting point.

Freedom means freedom of association. This means also that people must be free to disassociate themselves from others, whether their reason for this separation is rational or not.

I can be tolerant of idiots who don't use coercion to back their idiotic ideas. I probably won't choose to associate with them, though.

I can't be tolerant of puritanical, authoritarian busybody control freaks.

I accept people for who they are and am tolerant to what they do. Being tolerant of others is only a means to being compassionate toward one and other, despite our differences. If someone hates you, the best thing you can do to belittle their hatred is ignore them; you accept their hatred for what it is and move on. Their hatred will swell and eventually consume them, or they will accept their misguided endeavor and change.

Being tolerant is to accept someone's difference in opinion, to not judge them by it, and to build upon what they already know, together as a team. For example, I do not believe in dogmas, however I am willing to converse with someone who does in order to learn why it is that they do. I am willing to disagree with a person rationally in order for us both to come to a constructive conclusion.

This is not to say that I lose my temper sometimes and become the opposite of what I've just said. Being human I can't help my impulse to react irrationally. I have done this many times, even recently.

The battle here is within each of us to decide how we accept one and other. The person who becomes irrational is ultimately the loser. The winner is the one who constructs a healthy and virtuous relationship with others.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

I did once ask a roomful of friends (small gathering, not party XD) if my intolerance of intolerance made me intolerant and therefore one of the people I was intolerant of.  Everyone laughed and no one gave me a straight answer (though there did follow a massive philosophical discussion which I mostly listened to and don't completely recall now as there was alcohol involved).

These days I just put up with some things and not with others, but I think that might also have something to do with getting old in my old age (I'm only anime old).

But yes.  I still haven't nutted that one out either :)

another thought-provoking and discussion-provoking post by papapep!

I feel just as much excluded as I do included.  I suppose it's a healthy balance.  As long as I remain true to myself and honest with others combined with a bit of minding my own business, these sort of things you mentioned @papa-pepper don't really bother me.  I'll never please everyone and I can live with that.

For me, complete tolerance and my personal morals are at odds with each other. Under full tolerance, there can still be judgment, but you cannot act upon that judgment; hate crime will not be fought, bullshit theories will not be debunked into oblivion, etc.
You need to be careful with the word "tolerance" though. It sounds like a magnanimous thing, but it still lets you keep your self-inflicted moral or logical superiority, arrogantly placing yourself at a higher level than the other. For instance, if I, heathen, would ever say I "tolerate" Christians, you can kick me. People believe different things, that's a given, saying you "tolerate" that doesn't paint a pretty picture of yourself. Better to just be neutral about it, until it clashes with your morals.
A final remark: a lot of so called "tolerance" is just indifference, and should be called that.
End of ramble.

Your post reminded me of the time I dropped a Bart Simpson and all I said for a few hours was, "it's all fucking circles, everything, just fucking circles."

Or, as I responded to my kid when she came home from school, annoyed, saying: "so and so did such and such to me, I'm going to do it to her, see how she likes it!"  
"Why would you copy the behaviour of someone you don't particularly like?  Do you want to turn into her?"

Rule by force is the problem.
Until we reject that, this is as good as it gets.
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What happened @papa-pepper?  I could feel the emotion you put into that, as if it were stemming from an attack made on you.  I'm sorry if that's the case :(  
Much love to you;)