In a War for Existence, the Ones who Deny it Will Always Lose
Karl Popper explained the Paradox of Intolerance. Meaning, a society must be tolerant except for intolerance. If it doesn’t, it self destructs and its tolerance along with it.
Intolerance is growing rampant in the world manifesting mostly as some people denying the right to exist to other people.
Hamas denying Israel, Israel denying Palestinians, far right wingnuts in the US denying self-determining women, Russians denying Ukrainians, Chinese denying Taiwanese.
A person can not live in a society or come to an agreement with another person if that other person denies the first person’s right to exist.
A woman who wishes to not have kids, and invest in her career instead, can not live in the same society with a man who thinks all women are good for is for making babies.
The same way, we can not come to an meaningful agreement with Hamas or Khezbollah when their primary desire is the non-existence of Israel.
We can also not resolve the Palestinian problem when there are people in government who don’t believe Palestinians should exist.
The only ways to resolve this paradox is with the eradication of intolerance or of the people suffering from the intolerance. In the former case, the deniers lose. In the latter case, it’s more likely people will die and then good luck existing in a world of tolerant societies, and the deniers lose again. There is another way, if intolerance takes over the world. In that case, we’ll probably self-destruct as a human race.
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