Something I wrote back in a previous life the early 2000โs on tolerance.
Tolerance, is essentially a character flaw of weak minded, weak spirited societies and individuals who do not want to confront or deal with their deficiencies, so they therefore redefine their character flaw as a virtue.
A virtue they call tolerance. Its is as simple and as easy as that.
They would rather betray themselves than offend anyone. That is, they would rather offend against their own precepts, values, mores,ย traditionsย and behavior than make a judgment about somebody elseโs.
They simply re-badge their character flaw of weak mindedness as tolerance.
This saves them the consternation of a personal โstruggle sessionโ and having to wrestle with a predicament and make a decision or a judgment.
They are the misty eyed misguided appeasers and equivocators that have not only deceived and betrayed themselves over the centuries but also their communities and their countries.
Essentially,ย on one hand they are an intellectually bankrupt, lazy, and emotionally crippled and dependant type but on the other there is a second group of people who are duplicitous and deceptive andย who use the virtue of tolerance in tandem with the weak-minded as a stalking horse to reengineer society.
The end result of unlimited tolerance is that at the end, you tolerate your society and culture out of existence.
As G K Chesterton noted: “Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictionsโ