Intolerance

[PetShopBoy88]

Apparantly, I am intolerant.

I am intolerant of murder
rape
child abuse
animal abuse
drug abuse
neglect
theft
big government
destruction of private property
littering
hunting for sport
not allowing people to use their money how they want
taking away the rights of others
lactose
genocide
mob rule

Intolerance is thrown around like being intolerant is the worst thing people could do, but there is worse.

What are you intolerant of?

Am I wrong to be intolerant of anything I listed?

 

[michel]

Every human is intollerant; find one that says he has no intollerance, and I'll show you a clown.

I am intollerant of:- Too many things to list.........one of them being intollerance.

To be serious, and to reply to this thread in the way it deserves being replied to, you have made a very valid point.

We cannot help having pre-conceptions; none of us can be damned for feeling the way we do about certain subjects. However, the art of civility, the art of tact all come to play in how we react to stimulous.

I personally have a dread of meeting someone (and there are many such people) who are sadly afflicted with having one eye pointing in one direction, and the other at 90 degrees to the first; because I look people in the eye when I speak to them.

Taking that down to the basics, I feel "put upon" by the afflicted person, for being responsible for my feeling thoroughly embarassed when speaking to them - and that is an absurdity in itself. How can a sufferer be guilty of making me feel uncomfortable ? The problem is mine.

As you say, I am intollerant; but as soon as I catch myself thinking *intollerance* I think of my own faults, quirks, and failures............That soon makes me tollerant.

 

[PetShopBoy88]

Every human is intollerant; find one that says he has no intollerance, and I'll show you a clown.

I am intollerant of:- Too many things to list.........one of them being intollerance.

To be serious, and to reply to this thread in the way it deserves being replied to, you have made a very valid point.

Well, part of it I really do want to know what people are intollerant of.

Being intolerant of intolerance is logically a very strange concept. It's almost akin to being taller than yourself.

As you say, I am intollerant; but as soon as I catch myself thinking *intollerance* I think of my own faults, quirks, and failures............That soon makes me tollerant.

So do you think it's wrong to be intolerant of the things I listed?

 

[evearael]

I am intolerant of rape, sexual assault, any type of abuse, any type of child abuse or neglect, murder, genocide, adultery, dodging responsibility, drug (legal and illegal) and alcohol abuse, corruption in government, militias using child soldiers, child prostitution and pornography, the slave trade... I could go on for quite a while.

 

[michel]

I am intolerant of rape, sexual assault, any type of abuse, any type of child abuse or neglect, murder, genocide, adultery, dodging responsibility, drug (legal and illegal) and alcohol abuse, corruption in government, militias using child soldiers, child prostitution and pornography, the slave trade... I could go on for quite a while.

Eggersactly.:bow:

 

[Reverend Rick]

I am intollerant of:- Too many things to list.........one of them being intollerance.

:yes: You are on a roll today!

 

[FatMan]

I'm intolerant of poor spelling and them who use bad grammer:sorry1:

 

[Nanda]

Anything I wouldn't want done to me.

 

[PetShopBoy88]

I'm intolerant of poor spelling and them who use bad grammer:sorry1:

I suck at spelling, but I'm intolerant of bad grammar, too. It grates my nerves to hear.

(Ending sentences with a preposition has never been a grammar mistake. It was only in the 1800s or so that people randomly decided it didn't sound as good, so they started pushing for it. But it was never accepted by any sort of authority (considering there is none) and now many people are moving back to the way things were before those random people.)

militias using child soldiers

Good one. I didn't think of that, but I'm definitely intolarent of it.

I am intollerant of... intollerance

That's a bit like saying the only absolute truth is there are no absolute truths. How can that logically exist?

 

[robtex]

Pboy, that is one of the things I have learned from being on forums and here in particular. Word choice can really influence or sway a thread. For instance I will tend to use inflexable or mutually exclusive by design instead of intolerant because of the emotional attachment to that word. The reality is that intolerant shows a propensity for absolute where as tolerant by contrast shows a propensity for contingencies when applied to morality. I think the core understanding when shifted from the emotional burdon of intolerant=bad vs intolerant = non-contigent or absolute we can an achieve a more academic debate but as it stands that word is so marred by negative connotations that when placed in a sentence it overshawdows the other words in the sentence and sways opinions by its presence in the sentence alone.

Incidently if we went through your list and applied senerios to some of your items I bet you would find applications where you would tolerate it. For example say a boy who is hungry and homeless sees a family dining in an outdoor cafe. He runs past them and steals the plate running off in an alley to consume the stolen meal. Do you hold that to the same level of intolerance (or lack of tolerance) as a person who smashes a car window to steal a stereo he thinks looks cool?

 

[ChristineES]

I am intolerant of those who do violence towards others, including rape, murder, assault, hate crimes, and so on. My intolerance is much more so against those who do any kind of violence to children. I don't tolerate hate for no reason (or no good reason), cruelty to animals, and a couple of minor things, like people who are condenscending to people. (or think they are better than others because of race, education, gender, and so on).

There are some things I don't approve of, can't condone, or whatever, but I can tolerate in a certain degree. Such as any kind of hatred towards others, or similar.

 

[Mathematician]

I'm intolerant of people who abuse the word "like".

And don't ever, ever litter in front of me or I'll gripe at you until my face is green.

 

[lizskid]

Apparantly, I am intolerant.

I am intolerant of murder
rape
child abuse
animal abuse
drug abuse
neglect
theft
big government
destruction of private property
littering
hunting for sport
not allowing people to use their money how they want
taking away the rights of others
lactose
genocide
mob rule

Intolerance is thrown around like being intolerant is the worst thing people could do, but there is worse.

What are you intolerant of?

Am I wrong to be intolerant of anything I listed?

Actually, I have the list just like your except lactose (or black toast as the kids say).
I would add lying to mine.
My personal is that people can BE intolerant of whatever they choose, but they cannot impose that intolerance on anyone else.

 

[UnTheist]

I am intolerant of:

Homosexual and Atheist discrimination
Ignorance
Theft
Murder (this doesn't include abortion)
Trespassing
Stupidity
Any type of abuse or rape
Disrespect; Rudeness
Intolerance ()
Rich spoiled kids
Cry-babies; Emo; giving up too quickly
Broccoli
Religious extremists forcing their faith down your throat

What I find acceptable:
Pre-marital sex(with a person you love would be better)
Early abortion
Suicide (I may change my mind on this; I just think it's the person's right to choose whether he lives or not)
Homosexuality


Of course, there can be exceptions to any of these. I may have missed more. Don't feel like remembering all of them

 

[PetShopBoy88]

Incidently if we went through your list and applied senerios to some of your items I bet you would find applications where you would tolerate it. For example say a boy who is hungry and homeless sees a family dining in an outdoor cafe. He runs past them and steals the plate running off in an alley to consume the stolen meal. Do you hold that to the same level of intolerance (or lack of tolerance) as a person who smashes a car window to steal a stereo he thinks looks cool?

That's a good point. Intolerance is very situational. But, it also begs the difference between tolerance and simply understanding. I might understand what the boy did and why, but that doesn't mean I will tolerate that sort of a solution to his problem.

I would add lying to mine.

Oh, me too. And I consider it lying if people say they will be there at 7 and they're not there until 7:15. I will not tolerate lateness, because it's an accepted form of lying (fashionably late = fashionable lying).

 

[Katzpur]

What are you intolerant of?

I'm intolerant of extremists of any kind.

 

[Katzpur]

What I find acceptable:
Adultery (with a person you love would be better)

You lost me. If you're married to one person and commit adultery by having sexual relations with someone else, that's okay?

 

[PetShopBoy88]

I'm intolerant of extremists of any kind.

Wow, that's a really interesting statement. What is an extremist? My definition of an extremist is one who has a belief system that they apply to every aspect of their life, but with that definition I can come up with some examples that I don't think (in my limited knowledge of people in general) would be something intolerable.

 

[Katzpur]

Wow, that's a really interesting statement. What is an extremist? My definition of an extremist is one who has a belief system that they apply to every aspect of their life, but with that definition I can come up with some examples that I don't think (in my limited knowledge of people in general) would be something intolerable.

I was just going to go back to edit my response to clarify it when I saw your post. What I mean is that I am intolerant of religious fanatics (of any religion) and atheists who can't conceive of the possibility that theists are just as intelligent as they are. On the other hand, I admire people who are passionate about their beliefs or worldview, just as long as their passion isn't expressed in condemnation of people who believe differently.

 

[UnTheist]

You lost me. If you're married to one person and commit adultery by having sexual relations with someone else, that's okay?

Pre-marital sex. My bad. I mixed up the words. No, you shouldn't cheat on your wife, lol