The Paradox of Tolerance

 

How should a tolerant person regard intolerance? If she tolerates it, then (it would seem) implicitly she accepts it. If she rejects it, then she is herself intolerant.

"The difficulty with toleration is that it seems to be at once necessary and impossible," writes Bernard Williams. "Toleration, we may say, is required only for the intolerable. That is its basic problem."

 

 

 

 
 

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