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Lynchantropen (lynchantropen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 03:30:53 JST Lynchantropen

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#Tolerance #ParadoxOfTolerance #NoToleranceForIntolerance #KarlPopper
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1. An illustrated comic titled "The Paradox of Tolerance" by philosopher Karl Popper explains that unlimited tolerance can lead to the end of tolerance. Top panel: A woman asks, "Should a tolerant society tolerate intolerance?" A man in a suit with a Nazi armband demands, "You want more tolerance? Respect my ideas!" Another man dressed as a Nazi holds a torch with a swastika and says, "The answer is no." Middle panels: Text says, "When we extend tolerance to those who are openly intolerant... the tolerant ones end up being destroyed, and tolerance with them." A man suggests giving Nazis a chance, but it leads to a large Nazi rally. Bottom panels: A Nazi figure is kicked away as text reads, "Any movement that preaches intolerance and persecution must be outside of the law." Karl Popper appears and concludes, "As paradoxical as it may seem, defending tolerance... requires to not tolerate the intolerant." The source is cited as The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl R. Popper.
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  Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 03:30:52 JST Janneke
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  Please don't. The paradox is a frame.
  https://mastodon.social/@matrixrunner/113471559564819301
  
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  Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 04:01:08 JST Janneke
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  Hehe.
  My frame of reference here is Debian.
  Debian GNU/Linux popularized the term 'Social Contact' in the nineties (<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Social_Contract>).
  But as a reference to Dutch Politics I get the term has been tainted if not perverted.
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    Debian Social Contract
    
    The Debian Social Contract (DSC) is a document that frames the moral agenda of the Debian project. The values outlined in the Social Contract provide the basic principles for the Debian Free Software Guidelines that serve as the basis of the Open Source Definition. Debian believes the makers of a free software operating system should provide guarantees when a user entrusts them with control of a computer. These guarantees include: Ensuring that the operating system remains open and free. Giving improvements back to the community that made the operating system possible. Not hiding problems with the software or organization. Staying focused on the users and the software that started the phenomenon. Making it possible for the software to be used with non-free software. History The idea of the DSC was first proposed by Ean Schuessler after a conversation with Bob Young, co-founder of Red Hat. Schuessler said Red Hat should issue a set of guidelines that would guarantee to the community as the company expanded it would always be committed to the ideals of Free Software. Young...
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  Lynchantropen (lynchantropen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 04:01:09 JST Lynchantropen
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  @janneke I have significant doubts about 'social contract' in the Dutch political sence of the word combination, but it certainly is an interesting point of view. Thank you!
  
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