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Probably the sanest definition of tolerance I seen.

Of course, the problem then becomes figuring out whether someone has broken the treaty, and what the appropriate response should be.

There are also a lot of tactics around trying to provoke others into breaking the treaty while still keeping your hands clean.



There usually is no explicit treaty. That's why it's a hard problem. People become so used to those around them being mostly reasonable* most of the time that when white supremacists show up to promote genocide, no specific line has been crossed, so those around them just continue to act like this is just another thing to be 'tolerated'.

(*reasonable by mainstream standards, which already allows for a lot of unreasonable stuff, like billionares polluting the environment in the name of profit, which is somewhat related in that not bothering to define what is okay and what isn't contributes to the persistence of some really bad problems)




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