Unpopular Opinion
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How is respect in this context any different than tolerance?
I think dismissing people based on their beliefs is essentially saying I should only value the opinions(tolerate) of those who agree with me. Taken to the extreme that could easily lead to anyone with 'bad' beliefs being forcibly reeducated. Sound familiar?
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Yet no one is answering the question. I'm merely pointing out that respect for another's viewpoint and tolerance are closely related. Yes, I did to make a point. I was trying to make a reference to the paradox of tolerance.
The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually ceased or destroyed by the intolerant.
The OP's title is very intolerant of other people and is a therefore imo a bad take.
But that is totaly in line with the Paradox. You don't have to be tolerant to people and their beliefs if they use it in a malicious way. One look at what is currently going on in the US should be enough to say that religion in politics is a very bad idea and should not be tolerated. Idc if a random Dude believes in Jesus, Allah or the flying spaghetti monster, that doesn't concern me, but if that dude uses those believes to enforce how I and everyone else has to live then that is a problem.
People are dying because of millennia old beliefs that are way outdated and were highly modified throughout time to fit certain agendas. I think that it is in everyones best interest if we let those beliefs be in the past, where they belong.