Are all people intolerant/prejudiced? If so, is that bad?

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johnsom

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yea i think people generally are intolerant. I say this because you really have to make a commited effort not to be and its not easy.
 

thefragboxed

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yes everyone has some sort of prejudice, yes its a negative emotion and frankly its a waste of the energy required to generate that feeling.

on a side note it always interests me when someone says they're tolerant of something. the word tolerate implies some disdain towards the thing being tolerated doesn't it? i mean, you tolerate a cold don't you?
 

KindOfnElf

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Yes (almost) everyone are prejudiced and intolerant about something. It's a bad thing only for the one that is intolerant. (Ok, yes the lack of tolerance of majority can affect a lot of lives). But if we take everyday little things where people tend to be prejudiced.. (say, you meet a new person and you are prejudiced about their clothes, you wouldn't dress like that under any circumstances) it's ones own freedom that is lost. A prejudiced person has so many limits for itself, so many "principles", so many "morals". And all this "good things" make a slave out of your understandings, and before you realize you despise half of the world because they are different, completely uninterested about the fact that DIFFERENCE DOESN'T BRING HARM to anyone.
And tolerance is a bad word for that matter. If you have to tolerate per se, than you do not understand or justify others people choices. You just tolerate, which means you do have that inner struggle in yourself because something is different over your choices. If there is understanding that what you do, and what other do is simply right, than tolerance is unnecessary "act".
 

tigermilk

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In terms of all people being intolerant if this is the case I tihnk it is important to distinguish between two types of intolerance/prejudice.

a) I dislike people who don't que properly or I hate people who take to long at cash points.

b) (for example) I hate all black/white people because...

One is hugely damaging, on the whole one is not.

As for whether all people are prejudice/hold prejudices I don't know.