I think free speech is a great idea as a limit on government power. It doesn't and shouldn't extend to what speech individuals and their businesses choose to tolerate. If someone chooses to tolerate Nazis, that has nothing to do with free expression, but with their personal view that that's okay.
I think free speech is a great idea as a limit on government power. It doesn't and shouldn't extend to what speech individuals and their businesses choose to tolerate. If someone chooses to tolerate Nazis, that has nothing to do with free expression, but with their personal view that that's okay.
A simple fix I've read for the tolerance paradox is to change the framing to recognize that tolerance is a mutual social contract. We only need to extend tolerance as far as others extend it to us. A person with an ideology that is intolerant is not agreeing to the same social arrangement as me and therefore does not deserve my tolerance.
I think free speech is a great idea as a limit on government power. It doesn't and shouldn't extend to what speech individuals and their businesses choose to tolerate. If someone chooses to tolerate Nazis, that has nothing to do with free expression, but with their personal view that that's okay.
A simple fix I've read for the tolerance paradox is to change the framing to recognize that tolerance is a mutual social contract. We only need to extend tolerance as far as others extend it to us. A person with an ideology that is intolerant is not agreeing to the same social arrangement as me and therefore does not deserve my tolerance.