Why have we as a world become so intolerant?

Answer 1

We have not become more intolerant. We have actually become more tolerant. Here is how: tolerance has been redefined. It used to be that tolerance was that I would allow others to behave however they chose to behave. I was tolerant of their behavior. Now tolerance has been extended to beliefs. If I do not accept the beliefs of other people, I am considered intolerant. I still may be tolerant of their behavior, but since the definition has been extended to beliefs, I am now seen as intolerant simply because I disagree with their beliefs.

Answer 2

I'm not sure we have necessarily become more intolerant. With television and the internet, people are actually become more tolerant as they're being exposed to a greater diversity in human life, and most people come to realize that the unknown is nothing to wet yourself over. So it's just that the intolerant types have to get louder. They're starting to feel threaten because they're being exposed to all this diversity, and all these people who weren't raised the same way they were so actually think differently. And of course, with the relative anonymity of the internet, those people can get very loud indeed.

Answer 3

The world has become so tolerant that there is nothing left but intolerance. Do I contradict myself? Yes, but so do the worlds we live in.

Answer 4

We can't stand each other anymore.... tolerance is not a human quality. It's supernatural. We simply don't have the capacity to tolerate... we're doomed. The law of enthropy... to some degree applies here.

Answer 5

Capitalism pretty much breeds that kind of thinking. It is about me, myself, and my own. F*ck everybody else, if they have problems, then it is their own fault for not working hard enough.

Answer 6

Not enough haves and too many have nots!!