Re:The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small M...
by mytailorisrich on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:48AM
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This is not the point.
In your example the different views do not interfere. In society at large one can be vegetarian without forcing everyone to follow.
But when it is not possible or difficult to accommodate everyone then the most 'intolerant' and vocal may impose their view on the majority that does not have a strong view.
A common example is halal meat: If I sell fried chicken and some people absolutely demand that chicken be halal then I might just switch to halal chicken, i.e. all chicken will be halal.
Where I live the local primary school bans all nuts and all food containing nuts because of the 2% of children who have nut allergies.
Whether good, neutral, or bad, that's how it tends to work. The topic is overdramatised, though.
In your example the different views do not interfere. In society at large one can be vegetarian without forcing everyone to follow.
But when it is not possible or difficult to accommodate everyone then the most 'intolerant' and vocal may impose their view on the majority that does not have a strong view.
A common example is halal meat: If I sell fried chicken and some people absolutely demand that chicken be halal then I might just switch to halal chicken, i.e. all chicken will be halal.
Where I live the local primary school bans all nuts and all food containing nuts because of the 2% of children who have nut allergies.
Whether good, neutral, or bad, that's how it tends to work. The topic is overdramatised, though.