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Provided that said belief doesn't cause harm to other people, then yes it should be tolerated and accepted. However, any belief system that advocates the use of violence of any kind against any group of people doesn't deserve anyone's respect in my opinion.



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If the belief system isn't harming any one else ... ok, I guess?



VGPolyglot said:
palou said:

That would be the first criteria I stated - those all sell superiority above others.

OK. I was mainly talking about what I think, instead of commentating on your proposal. #2 refers to free speech, and some people think that what I mentioned falls under that category, so I had to clarify that. Of course, when talking about #3, the question is who is going to decide the laws? Are we talking about existing laws, or completely starting over?

I agree but your definition of xenophobia might be too loose, for example.



Ka-pi96 said:
Depends what you meant by tolerated? If you mean immune to criticism or being looked down upon. then no they shouldn't be tolerated. If people have stupid beliefs then other people should have every right to criticise them for that.

If you mean as in not being genocided or something, then yes obviously they should be tolerated.

Nothing wrong with beliefs, so no reason not to tolerate those. The actions that sometimes accompany those beliefs however... there should be much less tolerance towards.

Tolerance is by definition fine for pretty much everything. The problems begin when people start elevating certain beliefs over others and give them unjustified special protection or benefits.



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No, they shouldn't. The moment a believe gives birth to hate, isolation, intolerance, suffering and being forced on others it should be forbidden.

But the issue arises from how certain groups and people are Interpreting certain scripts and how they are living them. Christianity is also a good example for this, where you have peaceful people and Christian terrorists.



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As long as nobody is harmed you can do (and therefore also believe) whatever you want.
It's simple human rights (that derived from various religions so no bashing needed from either side) and, of course, they do have limits, e.g. there's not only "freedom" but also "equality" so you shall not limit anyone's freedom by doing whatever you want.
People say things like the Golden Rule would be enough
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule
but I don't think so. People who kill (doesn't matter if for religious reasons or not) probably wouldn't mind getting killed themselves so the Golden Rule doesn't apply.

So, line 1, beliefs should be tolerated as long as nobody is harmed. Just like kids' behaviour should only be tolerated if nobody (incl. themselves) is harmed but the world seems to tend to tolerate anything and everything now unless it is against their own lifestyle/belief.

Issue with this is: what is "harm"? Is only hurting people harming them or also getting on their nerves or penetrating their intimate zone, smoking around non-smokers/kids, producing goods in a dirty way? Pretty deep topic.



As long as you don't hurt another person physically or mentally, I think so.



bdbdbd said:

Of course they should. What counts is if the deeds cause harm to anyone.

VGPolyglot said:

No. Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia should not be tolerated.

I don't like islam either, but I'm willing to accept them having their beliefs as long as they don't cause harm to anyone. You have quite a faschistic views considering your black flag. What would be your solution? Nuke the islamic world altogether?

What? The black in my flag represents anarchism, not fascism. In fact, I am heavily against the United States' bombing campaigns in the Middle East because it kills a lot of innocent people.



1 and 4 won't happen. You'd be naive to think otherwise. Those are the driving forces of most major religions if people can't be that way with fucking video games, what makes you think people would be that way with religion?



StarOcean said:
1 and 4 won't happen. You'd be naive to think otherwise. Those are the driving forces of most major religions if people can't be that way with fucking video games, what makes you think people would be that way with religion?

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