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Comment author: [deleted] 10 November 2010 05:11:39PM 3 points [-]

I think -- correct me if I'm wrong -- that outside of anti-discrimination law there's also a commonly-held notion of voluntary toleration. Being an intolerant person seems to be held to be a bad thing, within certain bounds. We frown on some kinds of intolerant personal preferences -- if I refused to ride in an elevator with foreigners, you might think I was pretty creepy. (But what if I refused to ride in an elevator with people who refused to ride in elevators with foreigners?)

Comment author: [deleted] 10 November 2010 08:11:38PM 1 point [-]

I agree its quite clear that tolerance in some form has become a value of most Western societies and its quite easy to argue that citizens that value tolerance to some extent make a society more pleasant to live in and perhaps even more economically successfully.

However like many of our values tolerance on the borders clashes with other values.