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Ask Soylent - How to Treat Intolerance in a Tolerant Society?

posted by n1 on Sunday April 13 2014, @06:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the anyone-who-disagrees-will-be-shot dept.

Fluffeh writes:

It has been a little while now that this fledgling community has been around and it remains one of my favorite stories about communities. A splinter of a much larger community took it upon themselves to challenge the rest and make a move to a new home. Shedding the shackles that were being placed on them was a bold move, but one that has been fantastic.

The community here is great, but here is my question. Overall, we are amazingly tolerant of others, of the choices they make, and of their beliefs. I would then be curious, if we are such a tolerant group, how do we address intolerance in our ranks? I recently came across what I can only say filled me with pity and sadness. I find it saddening that in this day and age, and especially in this group, there are still such hate-filled people.

But this poses a question: how does a group that is tolerant deal with intolerance within it's ranks? Does our acceptance of others extend to accepting someone that has thoughts and beliefs which are far from the norm within this community, or is there a limit placed on how far from our own values a member of the community may be?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday April 13 2014, @11:42PM

    by c0lo (156) on Sunday April 13 2014, @11:42PM (#31052) Journal

    I think that dismissing every slippery-slope argument as being a fallacy is a fallacy.

    I think I didn't dismiss every slippery-slope argument as a fallacy, just the one in the message I replied to (do you really want to imply otherwise or was it just a tongue-in-cheek reply?)

    And I dismissed it on the ground of "non sequitur". Tolerating offtopic racist trolling does not necessary lead to SN becoming a hatefest; for this to happen, other condition must be satisfied (as in "additionally required, not necessary sufficient"):
    * an abundance of this type of messages: I've seen only one;
    * not exist other means to deal with it; given the "abundance", modding as a troll seems sufficient to me

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  • (Score: 2) by Koen on Monday April 14 2014, @12:47AM

    by Koen (427) on Monday April 14 2014, @12:47AM (#31075)

    Yes, my reply was tongue in cheek. Your argument is correct.

    I agree that modding as troll is sufficient, as per my post above.

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 14 2014, @03:26AM

      by c0lo (156) on Monday April 14 2014, @03:26AM (#31121) Journal

      Thanks for the confirmation and my apologies for wasting some of your time by "stating the obvious"

      (in my defense, I invoke the Poe's law [wikipedia.org]: "on Internet, nobody can see your smile"...
      except, probably, NSA... which, dealing with such serious matters as national security, doesn't have any interest to allow for such an interpretation anyway)

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      • (Score: 2) by Koen on Monday April 14 2014, @08:48AM

        by Koen (427) on Monday April 14 2014, @08:48AM (#31214)

        You don't need to apologize, I was being facetious.

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