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How are kindness and tolerance traps?

The requirement of benevolence mainly serves to avoid having to respond in substance to an objection or criticism, in favor of a formal response based on social conventions. In other words, benevolence is mainly a tool at the service of those who base their access to power on cronyism. In practice, its biggest promoters tend to put on a good front, while scheming intensely behind the scenes.

As for tolerance, it generally serves to justify the continuation as it stands of a practice that objective facts require to be reviewed. In this case too, tolerance serves to substitute form for substance, generally putting an objective fact and a belief or opinion on an equal footing.

Quotes

Cynthia Fleury, The end of courage : "The adaptation strategies are inevitable and signs of maturity, but they are also, alas, the surest path to the acceptance and legitimization of the unacceptable. The adaptation of some makes the abuse of others. »»

Go deeper

See the associated question 'The myth of listening and good atmosphere'.

The question 'What do you have to do to be a good person?'Exhibits what real goodness is.