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♲ John M. Gamble (jgamble@fosstodon.org)2025-09-15 15:36:22:

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#ParadoxOfTolerance #Philosophy

And the corollary/response:
Two-part image of a GIF followed by a screenshot of a text response.</p><p>The GIF begins</p><p>"The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance _not_ as a moral standard, but as a social contract."</p><p>(Next to that paragraph is a picture of Escher's Impossible Cube.)</p><p>The text continues, in red:</p><p>"If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it."</p><p>Back in black text:</p><p>"The intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance.</p><p>"Since they have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated."</p><p>There is a credit line in much smaller text that reads "Inspired by 'Tolerance is not a moral precept' by Yonatan Zunger"</p><p><br>_____________</p><p>Beneath that is text, possibly a Facebook response (I don't know, sorry) from commasameleon:</p><p>"Sorry as someone who teaches rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the Paradox of Tolerance. I can not 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 my classes now.<br>Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the Paradox of Tolerance and I am floored by its simplicity and angry I never saw it before."

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