The Paradox of Tolerance: should intolerance be tolerated?

I’ve seen some users get upset over the availability of the client-side Muting script for Discourse because it denies people the “benefit” of hearing their “insightfully novel”, “unpopular” or “contrarian” speech. Not co-incidentally, I would bet that their monickers appear most often on the lists of people who use the script for reasons that have less to do with their views than with the spirit in which they’re offered.

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