2007-04-20 20:02:47 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
or disagree with?
2007-04-20 20:38:19 · update #1
Now that I think about it, yes it does. You disapprove of it but you put up with it. You do not "tolerate" something you enjoy or approve of. Consider, i.e. "Joe has a high tolerance for cold" that doesn't mean Joe loves the cold it just means he can put up with it. In the same way, in a religious sense, "We should tolerate the Mormons" does not mean we love the Mormons, it just means we can put up with it.
Hmmm... Interesting.
2007-04-20 20:14:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. I believe that toleration of something is allowing someone else to have a difference of opinion or trait or belief that may not coincide with yours or do things that you see no point in or do differently. In as much, two ways to do the same thing and you believe one and tolerate the other that gives the same product.
2007-04-21 03:08:55 · answer #2 · answered by g_menagerie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, of course. If you approve of something, there's nothing to tolerate. To tolerate means to put up with. You only put up with things you disapprove of.
These days, though, people seem to think it's intolerant to disapprove of anything, which makes absolutely no sense to me.
2007-04-21 03:06:32 · answer #3 · answered by Jonathan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tolerating something means that you dislike it; maybe you disapprove, or it annoys you, or it makes you sad or angry or smells bad or looks ugly, whatever, but you tolerate it anyway.
2007-04-21 03:30:06 · answer #4 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To tolerate something is to accept something you can't change no matter how much you might want to rather then fight against it in vain and anger and hate.So, yes, you can disapprove of something but yet tolerate it when that something is something that you can't change and can only fight against it in vain and anger and hate without ever changing it.
2007-04-21 03:09:11 · answer #5 · answered by Tobeornottobe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I will tolerate this question.
I do not disapprove of it.
I disagree with how it makes me feel.
I agree to wait and see if this question will become anything other than tolerable.
I am intrigued, but not angered.....I can tolerate this moment.
2007-04-21 03:29:04 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tolerate - to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
Not necessarily "disapprove but allow", it just means simply to "allow".
2007-04-21 03:06:38 · answer #7 · answered by emmalina * 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily. You may not disapprove, but it could be annoying....
Tolerance is accepting people as they are, allowing them to be happy in their own way...not ours.
2007-04-21 03:07:36 · answer #8 · answered by trinity 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you tolerate something, you put up with it even if you wish you didn't have to.
2007-04-21 03:06:11 · answer #9 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes people can agree to disagree.
2007-04-21 03:05:16 · answer #10 · answered by alwaysmoose 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋