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Re:E Pur Si Muove by munificent on Thursday December 14, 2017 @03:06PM (#15926412) 

    > as a premise is certainly internally consistent.
Karl Popper argued that, in fact, that exact rule is not just consistent but necessary for tolerance to exist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

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Re:E Pur Si Muove by lr4444lr on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:20PM (#15927172)
That's sophomoric, and I'm surprised someone of Popper's renown would even waste time on this argument. In what ethical system is tolerance ever a good for its own sake and not some higher ideal?

Upvoted for bringing it to my attention, though. :-)

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