Tinder Foid Asks Totally Normal Question and Redditors Respond Reasonably And Coherently And Totally Don’t Hit Their Normal Talking Points

Hehehehe Karl pooper

https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfrick/comments/uc8p0p/the_true_paradox_of_intolerance/

(I went down the rabbit hole on this one)

A comic attempts to explain what Popper really said.

First reply:

No. Just no. Karl Popper said:

“The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek. The idea is, in a slightly different form, and with very different tendency, clearly expressed in Plato.

Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.”

― Karl Raimund Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

So the intolerably intolerant is who incites to intolerance and persecution already. If you incite your followers to go against "the homos" or defame women seeking abortion as baby killers you are intolerably intolerant.

The boot kicking the gay flag towards a pile of religions and BLM is such a weird misrepresentation of Karl Poppers ideas I don't even know where to start.

Check profile of this highly upmarseyd coomenter.

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