Tolerance is, we can all agree, a terrible terrible thing. I don't mean for society, of course, where it is a great thing, and I don't mean in the material sense of leading to less conflict and more moral prosperity. I mean for the addict, the tolerance addict, I know, because... I'm tolerant.
People don't like it when you are tolerant, because you suck, you are a junky, addicted to gentle engagement, think of this example to understand why the tolerated are not amused.
Compliment A: "I don't find many people beautiful. By the way, I think you're beautiful."
Compliment B: "I find beauty everywhere and in everything. By the way, I think you're beautiful."
The second doesn't really pump up people's ego, "I find beauty even in ugly things like you." Of course no tolerant person means it that way, but everyone seems to be of the Groucho Marx opinion that clubs that would accept them can't be very good.
Further, people do take advantage of your tolerance, when they need or want understanding and acceptance, therefore being tolerant means being taken advantage of, which as we all know is a terrible terrible thing as well.
(emerged from
MLW)
A lot of us just like different kinds of people around us, so we've learned to be with people we may not fully understand, and we put up with some triggering of folkwisdom based fears. Or also, I find that to learn about people and to learn in general requires one tolerate the world as it is, or else one sees through self-colored glasses.
Tolerance is clearly a bad thing, someone like me just lets the enemy survive when clearly in a modern democracy it's vital that the ideologically opposed be eliminated, eradication, exterminated, and ignored if at all possible.
Please save yourself... don't be tolerant before it's too late.
PS: I have to tolerate the loss of style tags, such that a poor image embeddor can't seem to even get a little margin action so the letters don't smash against the image... some say I should not be so tolerant, but should take a torch and my running shoes straight to the "style tag not allowed mafia"...! I kid my HTML oppressor. UPDATE: ek to the rescue...