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Here we go... out rolls the dictionary:
Tolerance:
1: capacity to endure pain or hardship : ENDURANCE, FORTITUDE, STAMINA
2 a : sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own
b : the act of allowing something : TOLERATION
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in·tol·er·ant ■■
Not tolerant, especially:
Unwilling to tolerate differences in opinions, practices, or beliefs, especially religious beliefs.
Opposed to the inclusion or participation of those different from oneself, especially those of a different racial, ethnic, or social background.
Unable or unwilling to endure or support: intolerant of interruptions; a community intolerant of crime
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You just can't accept that you're wrong can you. LOGIC Chewbacca. Use English, please.
As to WHY I am on about this, it matters to me when the United Nations seek to make international law banning religions from making moral judgements about peoples behaviour, when the united nations are doing the same thing by making such a law!!!!
There is so much hypocrisy in modern political correctness it makes me sick. By invoking Roasa, Ghandi, or Luther King Jnr to trample on religion, bigots and those intolerant of things like Christianity or Islam will perpetuate intolerance by simply changing the subject that is not tolerated.
Lumping up a heap of ideas and calling them "intolerance" is not what the word means. Intolerance is refusing to accept or that which differs from your own beliefs and practices.
Sometimes intolerance is evil - DEPENDING ON WHAT IS NOT TOLERATED. Other times it is a necessity for justice - DEPENDING ON WHAT IS NOT TOLERATED.
Ignoring that reality simply thumbs a nose at the English language.
[ 04-09-2004, 03:43 AM: Message edited by: Yorick ]
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