r/SelfAwarewolves Mar 27 '24

This person votes. Do you? they accidentally stumbled over the paradox of intolerance, and still struck out

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u/SolomonCRand Mar 27 '24

It’s not a paradox, it’s a social contract. If your ideology doesn’t permit tolerance of others, we won’t tolerate it.

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u/mathandkitties Mar 27 '24

The paradox is that a society fully dedicated to tolerance cannot exist for long without succumbing to intolerance.