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The problem is that by saying X is should be tolerated and Y shouldn't you are just making an arbitrary distinction, and are no better off than someone saying something shouldn't be tolerated due to their religious beliefs. Personally, i've no problem being a "self-righteous closed minded bastard" my main problem comes with people who don't acnowledge that they are the same. When you chose to tolerate one thing and not another, that's exactly what you are being. By saying a parent can't marry their child, you are being close-minded. You are closing yourself off the the idea and experience of a father marrying his daughter.
I agree that tolerance has been "hippie-ized". It seems (in America at least) that tolerance is whatever liberal policy is, and intolerance is everything else. Whereas both are just differing perspectives on what to not tolerate.
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