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riverine

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Reply to Voltaire2 (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 10, 2019, 09:34 AM

Feb 2019

The paradox of tolerance is a paradox that states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

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Is part of being free tolerating the intolerant? [View all] Soph0571 Feb 2019 OP

There is no conundrum. Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #1

But riverine Feb 2019 #2

"Tolerance without limit" is nonsense. Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #4

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