oldNslow wrote on 09/08/16 at 15:44:03:
" ... Example: It is not "tolerant" to criticize or condemn homosexual activity even if one finds it to be immoral or repugnant, but it is likewise not "tolerant" to criticize a religion whose dogma sanctifies the murder of individuals who engage in such behavior by tossing them off of rooftops. Bizarre as it might seem, some of the same people who hold the first view, are entirely capable of holing the second at the same time.
If two people, decide to have a ‘alternate relationship’. Which are about 5-7% of the population, so be it. Let them do what they want. (And MOST people do). However when they, (the Alternate Relationship People), DEMAND, that someone, AGREES, with the position they have taken. And the person/s, do NOT agree. They then, DEMAND, that they DO, and Sue, and WIN !
Is that, ’Tolerant?
If someone, comes into this Country, in this society, And ‘Cuts Someones Head Off, or throws them from a building, Because it is, ‘accepted’, where they are from. Is it, ’Tolerant’ ?
It would be, tolerant, if they do that in the Country they are from, because that is, ’their,’ culture.
When they go to a Country, that is NOT, in the, ‘Culture’, and do the same thing, then say:
“ We Will be ALLOWED, to do What We Want”. Why is it, not, tolerant, to say:
‘You Can’t Do That Here”?
Would it be A lack of tolerance to say:
“I am Not going to do that”, When a group of people say:
“ You must NOT, eat a certain food. You must NOT, flag a certain flag. You must NOT, Pledge a Allegiance to your Country. You must NOT, worship any God. You Must use women, ONLY as a receptacle for physical pleasure, (and little boys). You, Must Cut the head off, or Stone, or through off the roof, ANYBODY, that does Not Believe what, ‘I’ believe."
Then, I guess, I am NOT Tolerant.Certainly, ’tolerant’, of people wanting to live a, alternate life style. (So long as they don’t grab at me, when I AM STANDING at a Uriel.) In that case, I guess I am both.
Certainly, ’tolerant’ of people, (Who are Men, but dress like a Women), and use the Women’s Bathroom. Do what they have to do. then leave.
NOT at ALL, ’tolerant’ of, being TOLD, MEN, can go into a Woman’s Bathroom, (to do ‘other’ things)
And On and On it goes.
So, I guess, I am, ’Tolerant’ in some cases, and NOT, ’Tolerant’, in others.
Now, where/how, is the, ’Tolerance’, Level’, decided ?
Is it what, a person was brought up, by the, culture of the place they were brought up in?
Or is it, because,
’someone’, SAYS, ‘You Have To Be’ ?