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aleph_minus_oneyesterday at 3:48 PM3 repliesview on HN

> Should I be condemned?

You shouldn't be condemned, but as I wrote, people should stop the hypocrisy and virtue signalling of pretending to be so insanely tolerant if they have such a primal response.


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wrsyesterday at 5:44 PM

If they didn’t have a negative response, it wouldn’t be tolerance, by definition. Tolerance means engaging with something you have a negative response to.

Arainachyesterday at 5:25 PM

It's not hypocrisy or virtue signaling if people are choosing to be tolerant.

If someone is standing near the train tracks and sees a train approaching a stalled car, they should be praised for choosing to run over and help even if their initial instinct is to get as far away as possible.

idiotsecantyesterday at 8:56 PM

It's not virtue signaling to try to be better. Stop making this weird.