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Re:Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Tr... by keiferski on Monday June 01, 2020 @11:17AM (#23379437)
No, the paradox of tolerance is relevant when you have radical political factions inflicting violence on the population and preventing opposing opinions, not when some small group of people has crazy ideas that have little-to-no impact on society as a whole.

The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant.

Crazy people thinking that the Earth is flat doesn't prevent you from circumnavigating it.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Tr... by archagon on Monday June 01, 2020 @01:03PM (#23380786)
Meanwhile, the person holding the most powerful office on Earth is retweeting Q memes...
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Tr... by MagnumOpus on Monday June 01, 2020 @11:46AM (#23379805)
> Crazy people thinking that the Earth is flat doesn't prevent you from circumnavigating it

Crazy people believing that vaccines are a Democrat/BillG/CIA plot will prevent you from achieving herd immunity, if they are numerous enough.

Crazy people who think the Earth is flat will deny your circumnavigation project government funding, if there are enough of them.

In any organisation that is not a totalitarian autocracy, crazy people hurt the organisation's goals. The more numerous and organised, the bigger the gridlock.

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