{"id":1698,"date":"2015-03-16T14:23:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T21:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moreperfect.org\/site\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:30:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T00:30:02","slug":"tolerating-the-intolerant-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moreperfect.org\/site\/tolerating-the-intolerant-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolerating the intolerant? No."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moreperfect.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/extreme-weather-climate-link-6-new-zealand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1699\" src=\"https:\/\/moreperfect.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/extreme-weather-climate-link-6-new-zealand-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"extreme-weather-climate-link-6-new-zealand\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/moreperfect.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/extreme-weather-climate-link-6-new-zealand-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/moreperfect.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/extreme-weather-climate-link-6-new-zealand.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>olerance of intolerance violates <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Law_of_noncontradiction\">the law of noncontradiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s common to hear the intolerant attempt to paint the tolerant as hypocrites for not tolerating their intolerance. This is a cheap rhetorical trick that while it convinces nobody, can often confuse an argument. And there&#8217;s a strong logical foundation for intolerance of intolerance, especially for a philosophy of tolerance. It&#8217;s called the law of noncontradiction; simply stated, it says that you can&#8217;t have both &#8220;A&#8221; and &#8220;Not A&#8221; at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolerance of intolerance violates the law of noncontradiction. It&#8217;s common to hear the intolerant attempt to paint the tolerant as hypocrites for not tolerating their intolerance. This is a cheap rhetorical trick that while it convinces nobody, can often confuse an argument. And there&#8217;s a strong logical foundation for intolerance of intolerance, especially for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,59,12,6,10,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tk","category-life","category-moreperfect","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-we"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tolerating the intolerant? 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