• u/unhappy_grapefruit_2@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Isn’t being intolerant a good thing. Our society is intolerant of sex offenders.murders.etc etc and most people including me see being intolerant of those kinds of people as a good thing thus we aostracize those people from society which I may add is also a good thing

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      9 months ago

      It’s one thing to be angry that someone did something wrong and to demand they be punished for it, it’s another thing entirely to continue being intolerant of them once they’ve accepted and ultimately finished that punishment. Our society has something against ex-cons (likely because our government does little to cut down on recidivism rates) but they’re just folks that’ve screwed up and did their time. Their debt to society has been paid.

      In any case, what I was saying wasn’t that we should be tolerant of the intolerant. Quite the opposite. It makes no sense to tolerate others inhibiting the rights of others.