LIVE WITHOUT HARMING! BE TOLERANT (BUT NOT OF ABUSE)

One way of harming others is toxic intolerance, in other words, intolerance toward a behaviour or trait that is actually harmless. Therefore, the victims of that intolerance are innocent. By harmless, we mean that it does not constitute objective harm to others, except in cases of legitimate self-defense, whether one’s own or another person’s, against the aggressor.

There is nothing harmful in any form of freely consensual sexuality or relationships, ways of dressing, occupation (including prostitution) or lifestyle that does no harm to others. Nor is there anything harmful in physical or psychological peculiarities that are harmless, and in general in anything that causes no harm to others. Therefore, all of this deserves tolerance. By contrast, all injustice and harmful intolerance toward what is harmless deserve healthy disapproval. Let all plants grow, but remove the poisonous mushrooms.

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Some examples of harmful intolerance are rejection of people of other races, ethnicities, nationalities, benign religions, sexual orientations, consensual sexual behaviours, disabilities or non-abusive behaviours.

HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT HARMING? Reject racism, ethnicism, xenophobia and ultranationalism

FOR A WORLD WITHOUT HARM: Never harm the LGBT+ community

THE ART OF LIVING WITHOUT HARMING: Appreciate diversity

Such intransigence is a trigger that unleashes harmful emotions, mindsets and behaviours, such as hatred, discrimination, stigmatization and verbal, emotional or even physical aggression. It also leads to workplace exclusion, bullying at school, mobbing at work or even major crimes such as murders, torture, terrorist attacks and genocides.

Toxic intolerance is often most strongly expressed in the ideological and social spheres of the far-right ideologies (such as Nazism, fascism and military dictatorships), the rights-trampling, freedom-destroying far-left ideologies (such as communism and other authoritarian movements with a Marxist base), and religious fundamentalism (such as Christian, Islamic, Jewish or Hindu fundamentalism).

THE REVOLUTION OF LIVING WITHOUT HARMING: Reform the harmful side of the authoritarian far right

LIVE WITHOUT HARMING! Change the harmful side of communism and similar ideologies

LIVE WITHOUT HARMING: See the harmful side of religions

To a lesser extent, it is also fairly often present in the far-right, the far-left and religious conservatism. To understand it better, and speaking bluntly: if the far-right are often a pain in the ass, the far-left are sometimes simply a pain in the neck. But since we can all amend our ways, let’s switch sides now.

BETTER YET, LET US LIVE AND LET LIVE!

Thank you for being tolerant and for sharing,