On Tolerance - Kaos1973
I am sick to death of hearing about tolerance.
When I am told I am a racist white chap for simply being white I am told be tolerant.
When Westerners are being killed by Islamic terrorists for being Westerners I am told be tolerant.
Tolerance in engineering means
"Engineering tolerance is the permissible limit or limits of variation in:
a physical dimension;
a measured value or physical property of a material, manufactured object, system, or service;
other measured values (such as temperature, humidity, etc.);
in engineering and safety, a physical distance or space (tolerance), as in a truck (lorry), train or boat under a bridge as well as a train in a tunnel (see structure gauge and loading gauge);
in mechanical engineering the space between a bolt and a nut or a hole, etc.."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_tolerance
Tolerance means limits in a mechanical sense and it used to mean that in a behavioral way as well. When we say "I won't tolerate that behavior" I am saying I have reached my limit of what we find acceptable.
The leftists academics just love co opting definitions and rewriting them to suit their agendas. So when you search a modern dictionary you will find:
tolerance
ˈtɒl(ə)r(ə)ns/Submit
noun
the ability or willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with.
"the tolerance of corruption"
synonyms: forbearance, toleration, sufferance, liberality, open-mindedness, lack of prejudice, lack of bias, broad-mindedness, liberalism; patience, long-suffering, magnanimity, sympathy, understanding, charity, lenience, leniency, lenity, indulgence, clemency, permissiveness, complaisance, laxness
"an advocate of religious tolerance"
the capacity to endure continued subjection to something such as a drug or environmental conditions without adverse reaction.
"the desert camel shows the greatest tolerance to dehydration"
synonyms: endurance of, acceptance of; resistance to, immunity to, non-susceptibility to, resilience to
"tolerance to alcohol decreases with age"
So at what point does anti social behavior become intolerable. At what point do we say "That's enough! I won't tolerate this anymore!"