6 Oct 2024 12:04 pm
right, well a person could easily say that jewish power is a threat to a free and open society. Someone might disagree but there is not intrinsic contradiction. His reasoning only makes sense if there is such a thing as disembodied intolerance, when a person is just intolerant of literally everything and for no reason whatsoever. Which is absurd and just doesn't exist.Vegas » 06 Oct 2024, 11:03 am » wrote: ↑ Popper's paradox reveals that to preserve tolerance, we must sometimes be intolerant of the intolerant, especially when they threaten the very existence of a free and open society. The problem with this, as I see it, is that he never defined what is meant by a 'free and open society'. He put no definition or parameters on this idea. Therefore, his paradox is rooted in nothing more than semantics from who the leaders are at the time.
Really, it seems like an attempt to smuggle in a reductionist 'cosmic struggle between good and evil' perspective on politics...and for sure popper would view jews as 'good' and jewish power results in a 'free and open society' while germans in the 30s were 'evil'.
This sort of attitude is distinctly middle eastern. When left to their own devices, Europeans tend to gravitate naturally towards a more nuanced view of good and evil, similar to the sentiments expressed by nietzche in 'beyond good and evil'.