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Re:Protect me from what I want by bryanlarsen on Monday November 28, 2022 @05:25PM (#33780740)
You do realize that both "paradox" and "hypocrisy" have the same basic definition, don't you? They both mean "self-contradictory", the biggest difference is in connotation, not meaning.
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Re:Protect me from what I want by Andrew_nenakhov on Monday November 28, 2022 @05:53PM (#33781044)
No. These words do not have the same basic definition.

Hypocrisy: The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness. [0]

Paradox: A statement that seems to contradict itself but may nonetheless be true. [1]

Every time I see someone here mentioning someone the paradox of tolerance, it is to support restriction of speech for someone else. (someone really bad, of course - fascist, antivaxer, racist, you name it), and these people always hypocritically consider that they support free speech, just not for those bad people.

[0]: https://www.wordnik.com/words/hypocrisy

[1]: https://www.wordnik.com/words/paradox

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Re:Protect me from what I want by bryanlarsen on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @07:37AM (#33786820)
I'm not sure how you can accuse people of hypocrisy for being intolerant of the intolerant when they just told you they're being intolerant of the intolerant.
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Re:Protect me from what I want by Andrew_nenakhov on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @03:32AM (#33798322)
Because they consider themselves tolerant, but with an escape clause, and fail to admit that this clause makes them intolerant too.
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