ID: A scene from Legally Blonde of a conversation between Warner and Elle in the corridor at Harvard, in 4 panels:

  1. Warner asks “What happened to the tolerant left?”

  2. Elle replies, smiling “Who said we were tolerant?”

  3. Warner continues “I thought you were supposed to be tolerant of all beliefs!”

  4. Elle looks confused “Why would we tolerate bigotry, inequity, or oppression?”

  • rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    76·
    26 days ago

    This doesn’t eliminate the paradox. Why does the contract exist in the first place?

    It’s a moral standard. If moral people didn’t decide that tolerance was a good thing for society, the contract wouldn’t exist.

    So yes, thinking about it as a contract sidesteps the paradox, but the paradox still exists.

    So Karl Popper was still right and society shouldn’t tolerate the intolerant.