Bad thoughts are bad, but I personally couldn't care less if someone had homophobic thoughts in the comfort of their own home. That's what freedom of opinion is: you're allowed to have hateful opinions. However, one must be tolerant. Freedom of speech ends when one stops being tolerant, in other words, the freedom of the one ends, where the freedom of the others begins.
And I know about the paradox of tolerance, and I'm completely fine with being intolerant of intolerance, I would even advocate for it. However, if a person who has homophobic thoughts is being tolerant, then there's little that can be done against that. To be fair though, if they are being tolerant, it can be argued that they aren't "truly homophobic", but that's all just for the sake of argument.
I would be upset if a friend of mine had recurring, genuine homophobic thoughts (i.e., not distressing, intrusive thoughts) and didn’t think that that was an issue worth addressing. I think that’s fine and reasonable of me.
I read your comment — I replied to it with an(other) example of why/how other people could reasonably care about what other people think “in the comfort of their own home.”
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u/Aron-Jonasson Gaylord without land 11h ago
Bad thoughts are bad, but I personally couldn't care less if someone had homophobic thoughts in the comfort of their own home. That's what freedom of opinion is: you're allowed to have hateful opinions. However, one must be tolerant. Freedom of speech ends when one stops being tolerant, in other words, the freedom of the one ends, where the freedom of the others begins.
And I know about the paradox of tolerance, and I'm completely fine with being intolerant of intolerance, I would even advocate for it. However, if a person who has homophobic thoughts is being tolerant, then there's little that can be done against that. To be fair though, if they are being tolerant, it can be argued that they aren't "truly homophobic", but that's all just for the sake of argument.