Does acceptance and tolerance go hand and hand?

Question

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Acceptance, in spirituality, mindfulness, and human psychology, usually refers to the experience of a situation without an intention to change that situation. Acceptance does not require that change is possible or even conceivable, nor does it require that the situation be desired or approved by those accepting it. Indeed, acceptance is often suggested when a situation is both disliked and unchangeable, or when change may be possible only at great cost or risk. Acceptance may imply only a lack of outward, behavioral attempts at possible change, but the word is also used more specifically for a felt or hypothesized cognitive or emotional state. Thus someone may decide to take no action against a situation and yet be said to have not accepted it.

Toleration and Tolerance are terms used within debates in areas of social, cultural and religious context, to describe attitudes and practices that prohibit discrimination against those whose practices or group memberships may be disapproved of by those in the majority. Though developed to refer to the religious toleration of minority religious sects following the Protestant Reformation, these terms are increasingly used to refer to a wider range of tolerated practices and groups, such as the toleration of sexual practices and orientations, or of political parties or ideas widely considered objectionable.
The term "tolerance" itself, like "toleration," is controversial and disliked by some due to its implication that the "tolerated" custom or behavior is in fact an aberration. Tolerance implies both the ability to punish and the conscious decision not to, but makes no statement to higher principle.

Supporters of the term tolerance claim it to be more applicable than acceptance and respect. Detractors of the term suggest that the term is promoted as if it were a principle — one which falters when compared to more elevated concepts such as respect and civility.

Answer 1

No. Tolerance means you and I don't believe the same things but we can respect each other's right to make our own decisions.

Acceptance means even if we have faiths that are mutually exclusive, we accept each other's beliefs as true.

Answer 2

No, tolerance is living with something that you don't like or don't agree with. I would have to tolerate stepping on a nail, but not getting $1,000,000.00 in the mail. Acceptance is to approve of something. For example: I can accept an apology, a payment, or a statement of fact.

Answer 3

Obviously not.
There's something in the very word "tolerate" that says "I'll put up with it, but I don't like it...."
Peace and Love back atcha.