Is tolerance intolerant?

[Brian37]

A couple of thoughts I had and wanted opinions on.

Are you really tolerant in your beliefs? Is tolerance something to strive for? Should we strive to be more tolerant as a society? Is it even worth it?

Pluralization ought to be the case and it is beneficial. I don't agree with pluralization extrapolated to relativism though.


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Even instrumental carols have been banned in some schools. Are people so weak in their beliefs that they can't accommodate someone else's belief?
I've told a muslim I hope your Ramadan goes well. I'd have no problem telling a Wiccan that I hope their Yule festival is well. It doesn't mean I support those beliefs.

I just don't know when "being tolerant" or "politically correct" became so much about what we don't want to see or believe or have, and less about respecting the sacredness of other people's beliefs?

I mean if we're truly an autonomous culture or striving for one, do we really respect the autonomy of the individual?

Loaded question.

All 7 billion of us are the same species, and we all deserve protection via government regardless if we hate each other's claims. But as former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali once said, and I agree with, "Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice."

Yes, I will defend your  right to claim babies can be born without a second set of DNA and have super powers. But no, that does not mean the claim itself is credible. I still reserve the right to call a bad claim, a bad claim. 

I like to put it this way. I love my late mother, she was a lifetime Catholic and died a Catholic. But no, I don't agree that eating a magic wafer does anything but placate your emotions. I would also find it absurd if she had claimed every day, "The Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Eagles in the NHL Stanley Cup." I will always love her, but sure, it would still irritate me to the point of wanting to correct her.

Point being, I STILL think most humans are good. I still value our species potential to do good and be good. I simply question where our species thinks that morality is coming from.