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Re: Do you support non-discrimination laws that protect our rights?
In this context, by "tolerate" I mean "willingly accept the legal existence of." You may disapprove and protest discriminatory businesses, but if you support changing the law to allow them to exist, you are tolerating their legal existence. Your actions will make them more likely to exist.
Similarly, since I oppose virtually all censorship I accept the legal existence of content that I consider reprehensible. It would be true that I tolerate bad content, even though I might be against it and protest the message.
I tolerate bad content because the likely harm from censorship is greater than the potential harm from the content. With business discrimination, the harm from the conduct is greater than the harm from the laws against it. In fact, most businesses benefitted from the end of legal discrimination.
One does not have to tolerate something that is legal. Protest occur all the time to combat an action by an organization that people dislike but is legal. There are protests all the time outside one of our local porn shops. There has been another set of protests against a "My Doc's In" clinic locally due to some issue that people have but that is perfectly legal. Sufficent negative outcomes, including but not limited to protests and refusing to conduct business, are ways to bring pressure to individuals or businesses to stop the undesired practices without violation of their property rights, or freedom of association.
In this context, by "tolerate" I mean "willingly accept the legal existence of." You may disapprove and protest discriminatory businesses, but if you support changing the law to allow them to exist, you are tolerating their legal existence. Your actions will make them more likely to exist.
Similarly, since I oppose virtually all censorship I accept the legal existence of content that I consider reprehensible. It would be true that I tolerate bad content, even though I might be against it and protest the message.
I tolerate bad content because the likely harm from censorship is greater than the potential harm from the content. With business discrimination, the harm from the conduct is greater than the harm from the laws against it. In fact, most businesses benefitted from the end of legal discrimination.
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