Thanks. I’ve toggled my settings to prompt me to always add alt text before I post. Sometimes I need the reminder!
![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, then they are not covered by it.
In other words: The intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance.
Since they have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated.
inspired by. Tolerance is not a moral precept by Yonatan Zunger
ZmemeZ.
[response] commasameleon
Sorry as someone who teaches rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the Paradox of Tolerance. I cannot tell you how many times my students have had debates about this. This is the response. This does indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classes now.
Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the Paradox of Tolerance and I am floored by its simplicity and angry I never saw it before.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:zyrpxg5zzw7yrjhpal3u47rm/bafkreieqizky6uebopa4ddvosimqf4ek46xpgapguiu6aq743qazl6dl4m@jpeg)
Just wait another 24 hours, and I’m sure it will be something else. Really, it’s almost fascinating. Like there’s someone drafting scam emails in a boiler room somewhere who is just working their way through a medical diagnostic dictionary.
Not to mention the parasites. *eye roll*
My junk email is so CONCERNED about me! About my diabetes, my knees, the ringing in my ears, my neuropathy, the tingling in my fingers, my back pain, my weight, my cavities, my prostate, my penis, my collagen, my Alzheimer's...all in the past 24 hours! Gadzooks, I must be totally falling apart!
Agreed, agreed, 100%. The people in Springfield are being terrorized and these so-called ‘jokes’ are spreading the lies further. Knock it off, people.
I thought of that, too, when I saw this.
Well, that sucks.
Oh my goodness, how fabulous!