I’ve read several explanations, but I think I need it really dumbed down to grasp it.
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Think of tolerance like you would a contract, or a terms of service.
Tolerance is an agreement by those participating in society to allow others to live as they wish and express themselves without forcing anything or taking something away from anyone else. It’s part of what makes us civilized. This is the “agreement”, and is only granted to those that abide by it.
Now think about a phone plan, or buying an iPhone with a warranty. When you do this, you are prompted to agree to the company’s terms of service, or things that you can and cannot do while using their product or paying it off.
Some common things that could break this term of service would be jailbreaking your iPhone, or not making payments. You have stopped doing something that you agreed to, and now you cannot use the warranty anymore, or maybe even the phone itself or your carrier’s services.
Now, think of someone that comes up and says “that person shouldn’t exist” or “these people should die.” This is an obvious breach in the agreement to tolerate each other.
The first person or group of people to vocalize this initial intolerance have now broken the terms of service. By doing so, they have forfeited being tolerated by the rest of society, and the rest of society can choose to, well, not tolerate this anymore, because the agreement was broken.
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