• bizarroland@fedia.io
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      23 hours ago

      Reminder: there is no such thing as the paradox of tolerance.

      The rules of tolerance only apply to the people who abide by them.

      Therefore, you are tolerant of tolerant people if you abide by the rules of tolerance. You are intolerant of intolerant people if you abide by the rules of tolerance.

      It is very straightforward, the only pathway to paradox is from a lack of lexical understanding of the rules of tolerance.

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      14 hours ago

      That’s exactly my point.

      It gets thrown around like any flavour of the year amongst American blues, but I am starting to realise most people have no idea what a paradox fundamentally is. Rather they think it’s some sort of guiding idea because everyone keeps saying it and something about a philosopher—the entire premise whooshing over the heads of whichever tribalists “gotcha bombs” it entirely out of context.

      Two comments of it here and I imagine at least one of you have never comprehended what it is and where they fit into it. Someone’s the chicken; someone’s the egg. A true idiot thinks they know the solution to that.