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Tolerance Is Not A Moral Precept.
This is a thorough once-over giving the lie to the "conservatives'" self-serving bullshit squealing that "Butbutbutbutbut if you don't tolerate my intolerance you're a hypocrite!" The short version, as put forth in the article, is this: tolerance is a peace treaty, not a suicide pact.
Put another way, it's social technology, just like laws. It allows us, in an ever-more-connected global society, to exist and function. Like a treaty it covers those, and only those, who are party to it.
This means that if you're a genocidal fucking psychopath then no, Virginia, we do not have to "tolerate" your unhinged ramblings. You are cancer in the body politic. You have gleefully ripped your human card to shreds and dropped the pieces in an incinerator, cackling like a hyena on PCP at how you have "owned the libs." You have placed yourselves outside the treaty. We are not obligated to put up with your shit.
tl;dr: if you can't behave like a civilized human being, don't be surprised when you get treated like a rabid animal. Read and be better, or don't, it's your choice, but don't bitch when you get your find-outs.
This is a thorough once-over giving the lie to the "conservatives'" self-serving bullshit squealing that "Butbutbutbutbut if you don't tolerate my intolerance you're a hypocrite!" The short version, as put forth in the article, is this: tolerance is a peace treaty, not a suicide pact.
Put another way, it's social technology, just like laws. It allows us, in an ever-more-connected global society, to exist and function. Like a treaty it covers those, and only those, who are party to it.
This means that if you're a genocidal fucking psychopath then no, Virginia, we do not have to "tolerate" your unhinged ramblings. You are cancer in the body politic. You have gleefully ripped your human card to shreds and dropped the pieces in an incinerator, cackling like a hyena on PCP at how you have "owned the libs." You have placed yourselves outside the treaty. We are not obligated to put up with your shit.
tl;dr: if you can't behave like a civilized human being, don't be surprised when you get treated like a rabid animal. Read and be better, or don't, it's your choice, but don't bitch when you get your find-outs.
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Agnes' Law:
Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by dalek on Saturday April 29, @09:51PM
I have a better idea. How about you accept responsibility for your actions? You broke the rules. You doxxed Runaway. You have been spamming SN relentlessly for over a year. Nobody forced or coerced you to do any of those things. You chose to do those things out of your own free will.
I just got done ripping Runaway because he doesn't want to be held accountable for his actions. My post is https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=55105&page=1&cid=1303941#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]. That applies to you, too, aristarchus.
The Ancient Greeks believed in the rule of law, and I believe Aristotle had plenty to say about it. It means that no person is above the law. The problem is that you think you're above the law. You think that doxxing is okay and that you shouldn't face consequences. You think that you should be able to post spam in other people's journals whenever you want, and nobody should prevent you from doing so. Account holders who follow the rules only get 10 mod points per day. You seem to think that you are special and should be able to create as many sock puppets as you want, so that you have far more than 10 mod points per day. Your problem is that you believe that rules should apply to Runaway but not to you.
Jim Carrey's character in Liar, Liar explained this quite well: "STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!"