Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) “Unlimited tolerance is how open societies commit suicide. Elon Musk just warned” — TopicDigg

Unlimited tolerance is how open societies commit suicide. Elon Musk just warned that societies holding incompatible values eventually hit a reckoning. Karl Popper made the exact same point in 1945 while watching fascists and communists use open societies’ own tolerance against them. Popper wrote that unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If a society keeps extending tolerance to people who openly want to destroy it and refuses to defend itself, the intolerant win and tolerance dies with them. He never demanded censorship first. Argue with intolerant ideas. Suppress them only when they stop arguing and start using force. 80 years later Musk is asking the same question: how much can a tolerant society tolerate before it stops being one?