Quote - Tolerance is based off of being secure in your own beliefs.  What ever those beliefs are.  In general, if you are easily offended, you should look at WHY more than WHAT.....

 

Well said.  That's why certain groups can't stand to see/hear from others who aren't of their number.

"Tolerance" isn't free if it's imposed from the top down.  Top-down enforcement of "tolerance" (i.e. Political Correctness) is just a method of clamping a temporary lid onto a pressure cooker.  Sure, it holds the steam in -- for awhile.  Until such time as the pressure gets so intense that a violent eruption occurs.  Sort of like the pressure building over decades or even over centuries along an earthquake fault line. 

I can think of certain speakers being shouted down on college campuses -- shouted down by people who in other venues always loudly proclaim their support for the ideal of "tolerance".

"Tolerance" -- of course -- being defined as a total and complete agreement with and unquestioning adherence to their particular world view.  Any (defined by their enemies as) 'intolerant' types who take a contrary point of view will not be tolerated.  They shouldn't be allowed to speak........and we should kill their families, too.

It's quite possible -- in fact, it's practically guaranteed -- that the self-appointed enforcers of 'tolerance' will themselves become the oppresive enforcers of mental bondage.  Political correctness is nothing more than a means of attempting to get your opponent to shut up.

If tolerance is to be encompassed by the total acceptance of anything -- then we come to a place where nothing can exist.  Matter and anti-matter are -- by nature, and without exception -- utterly and completely inimical to one another.

So are certain world views and philosophies.

Why can't we all just "get along"?  Simple: because as Mark Twain said -- “There is nothing so irritating as a good example.”   Good examples can't be tolerated by those who are led by the irritating good example to subconciously understand -- or at least to be given a hint of -- their own lack.

Remove the good example (by whatever means necessary), and thereby eliminate -- or at least mitigate -- the intense personal discomfort of having a bright light shined in your eyes.

And thus: yet another source of mindless violence is in the world.  Sometimes it's physical violence, and sometimes it's verbal violence -- but it's always there.

Stalin was a horrible human being.  But he wasn't the only one.  It's just that he actually had the power to do what others can only dream of doing.  But they would: if given the chance -- like Stalin.

It's a mercy of God that few human beings achieve the type of power that Stalin did.

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