Isn't being intolerant a great human virtue especially of political and religious persuasion of others?

Question

Intolerance is great. It is a basic fundamental human right and I won't give it up for anything.

Political correctness on the other hand is just so wrong you can feel it. You know in every sense of your body it is just a restrictive nonsense that we as humans did perfectly alright with for thousands of years before the idea of it was dreamt up by some pansy asss.

Ford prefect don't worry about it there is no God.

Answer 1

Especially when that intolerance is part of your belief system. A religion that kills those who leave it, forces people to dress in a certain way, teaches its followers that killing people in the name of their God is OK etc is intolerant. Being intolerant of that intolerance is not intolerance but good sense :) I hope you get my point.

Answer 2

Intolerance is the lack of ability or willingness to tolerate something.

In pressed through angry argumentation, looking down at people because of their characteristics or viewpoints, negatively portraying something due the contrast with one's own beliefs, etc. On a more extreme level, it can lead to violence - in its most severe form, genocide. Possibly the most infamous example in Western culture is the Holocaust. Colonialism was based, in part, on a lack of tolerance of cultures different than that of the mother country.
It is most often than not associated with ignorance.

Answer 3

I worked with this fellow one time who was a devout Christian--4 days a week he had a Bible study at 5am--but I believe he thought I was inferior because I am tolerant and really don't choose to think about what morality means in others as long as they don't hurt others...because one day he looked at me and said, "you're very tolerant, aren't you?" in a way that certainly meant that being tolerant was not a virtue. I believe it is because tolerance or humanism is not taught at most churches...they don't care about others so much as their own entry into Heaven

Answer 4

Only if one is a Conservative are any of these so-called human virtues ever applied.

The Liberals live with no such constraints on their liberties.

But I am unsure exactly what you mean by "tolerance" in this context.

I am perversely tolerant of Liberal speech, because I think it is so revealing of their warped mindset. Significantly INtolerant, when it comes to what I let them teach my child.