What is the “paradox of tolerance” and is it legit?
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Eli5:
If you and your friends agree that you will always, always be nice to each other, no matter what you do, then everybody gets along at first.
Then Billy starts being really mean at sleepovers. He takes toys, says really mean things, pushes people off the couch when you watch movies and does other mean things.
Billy keeps doing this because you are all being super nice to him and you keep inviting him to sleepovers.
You have to tell Billy to stop or he doesn’t get invited to more sleepovers, because he makes it really bad for everybody else.
If you keep being nice to Billy and inviting him and not telling him to stop, he’s only going to keep making sleepovers really bad.
Sometimes you have to tell mean people that they’re not allowed to be your friend, even if you really, really want to be nice to every one.
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