Dakota Beacon

“Tolerance” Definition:

Relative capacity to endure or adapt physiologically to an unfavorable environmental factor.

Sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one’s own.

The act of allowing something.

The allowable deviation from a standard.

From the above definition, we can deduce the following:

Tolerance need not be exercised regarding what we consider to be a “favorable” environmental factor.

Tolerance need not be exercised regarding beliefs or practices similar or in agreement with one’s own.

Tolerance is not the act of either promoting or preventing something.

Tolerance is an allowable deviance from a standard.

Summarizing:

When we “accept” what we consider to be favorable, similar to, and in agreement with our own beliefs or practices, we are not, by definition, necessarily promoting, rejecting, preventing, or tolerating.

When we “tolerate” we set an allowable deviance from a standard.

Hence the question arises:

“What should determine the allowable deviance from a standard?” We’ll examine a few of the possibilities.

1. The deviance allowable must not physically hurt anyone
2. The deviance allowable must not destroy property
3. The deviance allowable must not encourage lawbreaking activity
4. The deviance allowable must not cause monetary harm to anyone
5. The deviance allowable must not prevent the exercise if individual freedoms

When does “tolerance” cross the line?

You may wish to add your own criteria to the five listed above. After spending some time doing so, ask yourself “When does my tolerance of the action or actions of another or others transition beyond tolerance and become either promotion, rejection, prevention or all three? This is the question I ask myself when determining the position I will take on any issue that arises in the public or private discourse.

An example:

The North Dakota legislature has allowed the installation of steel wire guardrails to prevent vehicles from crossing the median of interstate highways. My own personal experience involves an accident in which a neighbor and his wife on their motorcycle hit a patch of sand and left the roadway, hitting a steel wire guardrail. His wife died at the scene and he died of cancer about a year later, likely from the combined physical and mental trauma of the ordeal. The steel wire guardrail, in my opinion, represented a deviance from the requirement that it not hurt anyone. Motorcyclists may live through an impact with a w-beam steel guardrail with injuries to their lower extremities. While more expensive, it is the preferred installation for motorcyclists. Being sliced like a piece of cheese should be an unacceptable penalty for a motorcyclist who leaves the roadway, whether or not the motorcyclist is to blame.

Another example:

The K-12 schools of North Dakota should be a place where children learn reading, writing, and mathematics at a minimum. They must not be allowed to be a place where sexual grooming is tolerated. The penalty for violating this standard must be immediate suspension and subsequent termination of employment upon proof of the violation(s).

When it comes to the welfare of public school students, parents are vital overseers and sexual deviance must not be taught by teachers or any other public or private k-12 school employees or guests.

Conclusion:

The societal lack of understanding of the difference between “tolerance” and “promotion” is unbelievable. Tolerance is the allowance of an amount of deviance accepted by society. Promotion arises from marketers similar to the way in which prostitution results from pimps. The only group that seems to be promoting its ideology with considerable success these days are Marxists that have been in the universities for over a century and have now infiltrated Public K-12 schools and large corporations; they wish to destroy what exists in order to fill the void with their power. Shop on main street and prevent the “indoctrination” of our children. A thousand excellent teachers can be perverted by a single Marxist. We all have a lot of work to do.

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