Tolerance

[Mcupobob]

I try as hard as a can to live by the creed of the wardering intelect, never act superior to anyone else, the knowledge you have is to build people up not tear them down.

 

[Beldaros]

Nobody can honestly say they are tolerant of everything.

I like to think that I am a tolerant person, I always try to look at things from other peoples perspective and to try to understand every plausible opinion and action, but there are still things that grate on me.... I always understnad where someone is coming form though even if I disagree and even if they are blatantly wrong. Yes most things in life are grey but some things are black and white, like (Insert name here) was (insert character here) in (Insert film here) eventhjough he looks like (Insert name here) Bad example but all I could think of off the top of my head.

So yeah, tolerant I think so but not entirely, I try to be though.

All ion all though this is all that matters; Be yourself no matter what the consequences.

 

[omega 616]

I hate it when people say things about judging people, I can and will judge every single person I meet and so will you.

It is a defense mechanism that we have developed, a favorite quote of mine is "there was a guy with a spear running at 3 people, the first person ran away, the second person fought, the third stood there ... he didn't live long enough to have kids"

We instinctively judge people as soon as we meet them and we all have opinions on everything.

What your mum said sounds a little profound and deep but it isn't, you have never met Hitler but I bet you judge him to be a pretty bad guy, same goes for any murderer, rapists, and kiddie fiddlers, you judge them without ever knowing them or there up bringing.

on topic, yes, I don't consider being tolerant to be tolerant to everything and every body. Like I said before would tolerate murders and rapists?

 

[funguy2121]

Firstly, this is not about people's opinions. Do NOT use this to start flame wars about personal beliefs like religion. This is a discussion about tolerance.

Basically, I've always considered myself a tolerant person. I have never thought any less of a person because they are gay (or bisexual or pansexual or whatever), or Christian (or Muslim or Jewish etc) or black (or other... ethnicity? Is that the right word?), so I must be a tolerant person who accepts everyone for who they are, right?

But then my parents came out about their views on homosexuality, and told me that despite saying they'd love me and my brother no matter what sexuality we were, in my mums words, "It's just not natural, is it?"

Of course to me, this was ridiculous. Being gay doesn't make you unnatural, it just makes you attracted to people of the same sex.

But more recently she said something else that got me thinking. "Our generation cannot judge yours, because you were brought up differently, just as you cannot judge us based on the way we grew up." And she's got a fair point there.

I'm not about to say you have to agree with every single person you ever meet. But surely taking the moral high ground over someone who was brought up with different beliefs, morals and ideas is just what those we consider intolerant are doing, so we are just like them.

So, what do people think? Can you consider yourself a tolerant person if you do not tolerate those who disagree with equality?

I think your mum's an amateur propagandist. I mean no offense to her, of course. But that is bullshit. I'm a Texan, and let me tell ya, there's a whole lotta people around me who do not share my tolerant views of the LGBT. So no, your environment is not an excuse. Perhaps it is to a degree if you're still growing up and figuring out who you are, but I don't think the controversial comments made a year ago by Harry Reid and Joe Biden about race were wholly acceptable, simply because they're old farts.

I think you're confusing "taking the moral high ground" with "righteous indignation" and the two are very different. What it comes down to is that all arguments should be welcome, at least outside of the workplace. In schools, it should be fair game. But if someone is obviously condoning, say, terrorism or racial profiling, instead of simply telling that person that he/she is an asshole (which they clearly are), you can debate them and try to get them to back up their argument. A bigot normally can't because his/her thought processes are generally wired to shut themselves down quickly and move on before they have the chance to face big questions.

But I could be wrong

 

[Daffy F]

Im tolerant, even if I don't like a specific thing, I keep my mouth shut and deal with it.

I am the opposite. If something bugs me. I do something about it.

 

[Ham_authority95]

I'm pretty tolerant of differences.

unless their dickheads, or try to shove their beliefs down my throat,I'm fine with anyone for the most part.

 

[dont_blink]

I'll never understand people who exhaust themselves hating other people. The world is so much a better place if everyone is happy.

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