How tolerant are you?

[SilentCom]

Many of us come from "western" countries where ideas such as freedom and toleration are expressed and epitomized. These ideas form much of the foundation that which we live. We see it everywhere whether it be various civil or human rights or how people treat each other. The conundrum here is that despite these ideas being held up to great esteem people still demonstrate strong opposition and intolerance to those who are different. Could we be regarded collectively as tolerant if society cannot make up its mind, or should we regard tolerance as a non-collective entity and instead on the basis of individual action?

My overall question for fellow escapists here is how tolerant do you truly believe yourself to be toward different people? (Keep in mind "different people" can imply any manner of differences between you and other people.)

Edit: I'm sure many people will say they are tolerant and "don't judge" but lets be honest, people don't like certain types of people, and while you may not attack them, you probably won't align yourself with them because of certain differences.

 

[bdcjacko]

What does as long as I can make fun of their silly customs but don't care what they are doing as long as it isn't endanger me count as?

 

[Scolar Visari]

Only so far as others are to me really... Doesn't mean I can't play rough though.

 

[SilentCom]

What does as long as I can make fun of their silly customs but don't care what they are doing as long as it isn't endanger me count as?

Sure, that counts. =P

 

[Artina89]

As long as they are nice to me I will always at least say "hello" as I pass them. Life is too short to hate or be intolerant of people.

 

[exessmirror]

i am very tolerant, because i dont give an fuck. and you could hit me and i would still not hit you back, only if i get really really pissed(then you need to have done somthing really really really bad) i will hit you, and than you will get hurt.
hurt as in hospitalized

 

[Thaluikhain]

I'm tolerant, but ______ really, really are just bad people. Everyone knows that.

 

[IndianaJonny]

Anyone else think it's bizarre that we claim to be tolerant yet are generally intolerant towards the intolerance of others? How can we square ourselves with any concept of tolerance if we wish to adhere and promote any sort of moral or ethic code?

 

[Keava]

Tolerance has pretty straight-forward definition. Tolerance does not exclude disagreeing, disputing and most definitely does not exclude disliking. The whole idea of tolerance is that even tho i dislike/disagree with something i won't try to destroy it, hence i can say i'm 100% tolerant.

 

[TimeLord]

I love and tolerate everyone. Except people who are trying to stab me of course.....

 

[Mcmuffin]

I do not consider myself a racist or anything esle, im a kind and courtious person, however i tend to tell racist jokes a LOT. also i think im a little subconsciously racist against people who act like their stereotypical race, like white rednecks, black gangsters, asian smartasses, etc....

 

[KingofallCosmos]

I don't mean to be rascist, but I think I'm pretty tolerant. I should be a bit less, maybe.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Anyone else think it's bizarre that we claim to be tolerant yet are generally intolerant towards the intolerance of others? How can we square ourselves with any concept of tolerance if we wish to adhere and promote any sort of moral or ethic code?

Aha kudos to you, in fact if i wasn't feeling so sick i'd probably give it one of my slightly evil sounding laughs...

OT: Yeah i'm very tolerant of basically everyone...Unless they're Unicorns of course

[sub]Damn Unicorns, using their facade of cutesy innocence to hide their evil plans...[/sub]

 

[SilentCom]

I do not consider myself a racist or anything esle, im a kind and courtious person, however i tend to tell racist jokes a LOT. also i think im a little subconsciously racist against people who act like their stereotypical race, like white rednecks, black gangsters, asian smartasses, etc....

Lol, that reminds me, I know some good racist jokes but I'm not going to post them here or I might be suspended or something...

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I'm generally tolerant of others and figure it's better for people to figure out their own views for themselves, even if they aren't the same as mine. The only thing I generally don't tolerate is intolerance of others who are arbitrarily different. Though I do tolerate the intolerance of intolerance, but not the intolerance of that.

Anyone else think it's bizarre that we claim to be tolerant yet are generally intolerant towards the intolerance of others? How can we square ourselves with any concept of tolerance if we wish to adhere and promote any sort of moral or ethic code?

Aha kudos to you, in fact if i wasn't feeling so sick i'd probably give it one of my slightly evil sounding laughs...

OT: Yeah i'm very tolerant of basically everyone...Unless they're Unicorns of course

[sub]Damn Unicorns, using their facade of cutesy innocence to hide their evil plans...[/sub]

Hey! I take offense to that. My cousin married a unicorn and she's totally fine.

 

[Navvan]

Tolerance has pretty straight-forward definition. Tolerance does not exclude disagreeing, disputing and most definitely does not exclude disliking. The whole idea of tolerance is that even tho i dislike/disagree with something i won't try to destroy it, hence i can say i'm 100% tolerant.

This.

Most people don't seem to realize that tolerance isn't about accepting people who are different, its about accepting things you don't like. If you don't have a problem with something it is impossible to tolerate it. Thus in order to tolerate another race you would have to be a racist.

That said I'm a rather intolerant person, but I don't dislike a great deal of things. The things I do dislike I would rather not tolerate.

 

[Feralcentaur]

I shall admit to my biases unlike some who seem to think they are perfect beings incapable of unjust hate!
Although these aren't really examples of intolerance, it is an example of my bias against certain group:

You know those Christian types who act really friendly and nice and stuff and often will say sappy things with "god" in the sentence? I sort of have a bias against people like that... It's not so strong to the point where I would actually change a currently existing positive relationship with a person if they acted like this, but it is something that causes me to make some somewhat unfair prejudgements when I first meet them. I always just end up first assuming that because they're a devout Christian that they'll be intolerant of Muslims or Homosexuals or have something against me for being Agnostic.

Then I think about it for about 5 minutes and realize that's not a good assumption to make unless if they were to actually say something that would show whether or not they think that way...
This has led me to have had a few awkward conversations with a Fundamentalist friend of mine... By now he actually has once asked if Hitler was my role model since I'm nonreligious... Although I sort of did sarcastically say something along the lines of "Oooh yeah, because a magical robed man in the sky makes sooo much more sense"... Only after he had called Darwin and the majority of Modern Scientists "Quacks" and said awfully mean things about them! And then there was our Scandinavia "discussion" which I'm not even going to get started on...

Heh, I have a bias that makes me assume people are going to have a bias. That's just silly... =P

This one is more of a "will not associate self with" kind of thing:

That and I tend to be really annoyed by people with a bad voice (especially when they're singing) and will purposely try to avoid talking to them so I don't have to hear their voice, which is a tad dickish of me because there has been a few times when people who weren't at all rude or mean or anything like that and seemed like perfectly nice people would try to strike up a conversation with me and I've ignored them, which has probably hurt someone's ego/self esteem at least once by now...

In my defense, I just don't like bad voices, thy hurt my ears!... But I'm still kind of a dick...

 

[The Apothecarry]

I try not to judge people, but as my roommate stated some people just happen to fall into those terrible stereotypes.

As far as accepting things I don't like, I'm about 60% there. For the most part, I just don't care. Insult me and I'll shrug it off. Everyone has their opinions, and I am more than willing to listen...until we start talking about anime and music. Then I'm all "Tool and Black Lagoon are awesome, your argument is invalid." I'm also a rabid Halo fanatic and I despise the "hardcore" Call of Duty or "pro" Halo players.

You're not cool, you're not pro. It's a game. Stop being over-competitive.

 

[Jedoro]

Just don't push your beliefs on me, and I can tolerate just about anything.

 

[TheTurtleMan]

So long as people aren't hurting others, or annoying me, I'm pretty laid back about what's acceptable.