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Look, it's not rocket science:

    Tolerant of   |   Tolerance | Yes
    Intolerant of |   Tolerance | No
    Tolerant of   | Intolerance | No
    Intolerant of | Intolerance | Yes
It's a little nicer as a 2x2 table, but whatever.


"hold different opinions from oneself" is subjectively tolerance/intolerance. This table exploits word games, because the first column is "in/tolerant to hearing the opions of", and the second is "holds opinions I believe to be exclusive to a special sub-community of society".

You cannot correctly come to a decision about the latter, without listening, which requires the former.


You are reading into this big league.

Are you familiar with "point-free style"? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming) The above crude table should be read as given: point-free. I don't care about the subject of [in]tolerance even slightly (opinions, smells, beliefs, quasi-scientific theories, what-have-you).

If you are tolerant I will tolerate you, if you are intolerant go screw.

"It's so simple!"


> If you are tolerant I will tolerate you, if you are intolerant go screw.

Of course the subject is relevant. "if you are intolerant go screw" - does that mean you are intolerant?




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