God's Dreaming: Thoughts On God, Religion And Everything So Accused
Intolerance
Submitted by Taranis on Fri, 07/02/2010 - 00:06
There's a lot that people write and say about how important tolerance is. It almost seems politically incorrect to write about the necessity for intolerance - but then, this is my space to do that. To call it as I see it. To be - if you will - intolerant. And I'm building a list of things to be intolerant about. So I'll comment here as I add things to be intolerant of to use in a future post. Feel free to chime in here in the comments.
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Tolerance Without Reason.
It's good to tolerate things to an extent - if it does no harm to one's self or others. It is bad to tolerate things that do harm to one's self or others - directly or indirectly.
Idiocy after ignorance is removed.
If you don't know better, you're ignorant. When that ignorance is removed and someone continues doing something that is stupid, that person should not be tolerated.
This applies to organizations, too.
Intolerance without knowledge.
It takes knowledge of something and how it relates to other things for one to become intolerant of it.
Healthy Intolerance
Odd how such a word can get such a bad reputation. Intolerance is actually a very healthy thing. If one were to tolerate bad behavior, abuse, negligence, bad manners - any number of offenses that demean the human interaction and spirit - one would be a doormat, frowned upon in healthy environments worldwide. It's an industry: Psychiatrists label such a one, self-help books are written about him. Yet if one is in politics, one is expected to be tolerant of such behavior (and more) if one is to win over the public and achieve election.
Tolerating differences (or not) is a personal matter, and each person who has an intolerance for a philosophy which is not his own, a race to which he does not belong, a credo which he does not profess, does so for his own reasons. If he can name his reasons, and they are sufficient for him, and if he is not driven to crime for his intolerance, he is entitled to it. If, on the other hand, he has no reason but is merely parroting the intolerance of another, if he puts himself or others at risk for his intolerance, he should be called on it, made to examine it and find his own reasons, if he has any, or be set aside as stupid.
I find it very hard to tolerate stupid.