I do see tolerance as a measure of relation to other people. One should respect different cultures, habits, opinions, behaviours...!

Dear @Raja, tolerance may be normed, but we do live on different manners. Do we speak about universal tolerance?

You have had raised so many questions under this one simple thread. I will visit your thread again.

I do see tolerance as a measure of relation to other people. One should respect different cultures, habits, opinions, behaviours...!

Dear @Raja, tolerance may be normed, but we do live on different manners. Do we speak about universal tolerance?

You have had raised so many questions under this one simple thread. I will visit your thread again.

Dear Ljubomir Jacić

Thanks for a nice contribution, Actually there is one question with coving diversity of its aspects & parameters; starts from Tolerance, self tolerance, social tolerance, frame of references and then universal tolerance. Purpose is to understand and analyses and get some beneficial design to cover all aspects till Universal tolerance.

Regards,

“What you do not wish done to yourself, do not do to others.” This principle serves as the foundation of a number of ethical directives that are concretizations of the idea of human dignity: Commitment to a culture of non-violence and respect for life (you shall not kill); Commitment to a culture of solidarity and just economic order (you shall not steal); Commitment to a culture of tolerance and a life of truthfulness (you shall not lie); Commitment to a culture of equal rights and partnership between men and women (you shall not commit sexual immorality)....

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Dear Ljubomir Jacić 

Thanks. 

Very true that "What you do not wish done to yourself, do not do to others", That is more beneficial for humanity base treatment approach. Do we might need to find out some more principles to cover other situations where set of requirements and wishes differ persona to person, age, behavior, gender, choices, over all situation to situation as well?

Regards,

Dear Raja,

The word tolerance, in itself, is very ambiguous and denotes some negative meanings. As "carry with patience"; "put up with"; "to resist". To tolerating must make an effort, often too large. I prefer others words: love and compassion.

Regards

Luis Fernando

"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population." — Albert Einstein

As the above quote clarifies, tolerance is one of the important factors in a good society. However, we hear that zero-tolerance policies in schools have been adopted in various schools and other education venues In the United States and Canada [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_tolerance_(schools)]. I think that much importance should be attached to the following conclusion from a study of zero tolerance in schools (http://www.vera.org/sites/default/files/resources/downloads/zero-tolerance-in-schools-policy-brief.pdf):

"Zero tolerance does not make schools more orderly or safe – in fact the opposite may be true. And policies that push students out of school can have life- long negative effects."

Napoleon,

If ''Tolerance is forgetting your rights over others;'' don't you think that this is a lack of self-respect?

Maybe one of ways to "count" tolerance is to count the quantity of registered conflicts, fights, caused by different kinds of intolerance.

Tolerance cannot be measured under  any compass .It is answerable thru our mind & brain within our inner will & energy force .Tolerance make our every action  of our human life .

Tolerance is necessary & inevitable in every circle of the society this may cover up in any areas even including the school education where the tolerance impart the virtue of discipline among students & this  may be very much fruitful in their future growth & development of the life .

Tolerance in the society & so to say to cover the entire human beings of our universe & the guardian principle of tolerance if it rest in the every human being ,the entire society including our world may live in totally peaceful environment .

Unfortunately the truth of tolerance is otherwise our human being in various areas including under the political environment remain out of the tolerance because of their basic nature working in the conscious mind in the form of Anger,Greed,Jealousy ,Ego ,Pride & such other related areas under which their attitude & function of life remain totally out of different temperament disturbing the peaceful atmosphere of the society ,country ,or even our world .

This is my personal opinion 

Tolerance is a very tricky cultural concept.  Each culture define itself by tolerating/encouraging certain practices and ideas about the world/societal life and by discouraging/forbidding/condemning certain practices and ideas about the world/societal life.  When the society is mono-cultural then everybody is enculturated from the crib into this concensus.  But when a society is pluri-cultural with one dominant culture and a few sub-cultures and that a sub-culture define what is tolerable and what is not,  differ in significant ways from the dominant culture then it is where the real question of tolerance begin. Some dominant cultures just edict that  the sub-culture will be tolerate as long as they never enter the zone of intolerance as defined by the dominant culture. If the dominant culture is very prescriptive for its own members then this policy will necessarily mean the eradication of all sub-cultures.  If the dominant culture is very liberal for its own members then the compromised request by the sub-culture in their private sphere will allow them to continue to exist given that most of its own requirements will not conflict with the dominant liberal culture.  

Canada is a liberal society with a lot of sub-culture coming from all over the world.  Many sub-cultures have restrictive rules for marriages which do not exist in the dominant liberal society.  But it is not a problem for the dominant society because it does not cause any problem that these sub-cultures to be restrictive in that way for their own members.  It may be an incovenience for an individual outside of that community that love one of its member, but it is not a social problem and so this is tolerated by the dominant culture.  Female genital mutilation is not tolerated by the canadian laws although male genital mutilation is accepted.   Polygamy is illegal.  Homosexuality and marriage between homosexual is legal.  Most sub-cultures do not accept homosexuality but that it is legal is not a problem for them.  They are free to condemn it, like the religion groups are free to condemn it .  But if someone would beat someone because of this reason then it would be treated as a criminal act by canadian law. 

Dear Rohit M Parikh 

Thanks for a nice contribution.

Dear Luis Fernando Molina Prieto

Thanks for contributing your views. You its noticeable point, but might be with cultural aspects the understanding and definitions adopt change as well.

Dear Napoleon Ono Imaah

Thanks for guiding and summering the concept of Tolerance.

Dear Tatsuo Tabata

Thanks for helping, its really dynamic aspect. 

Dear Anna Boshenko

Thanks for nice contribution, yes that parameters are helping in calculation.

Dear Louis Brassard

Very right to that "Tolerance is a very tricky cultural concept".......and its relative to person to person and situation to situation, all what history told......... At the same time this is so significant aspect as well even can use directly to determine the life and future trends of culture.

Regards,

Raja

Tolerance refers to the action and effect to tolerate. It is based on respect for the culture, beliefs, values, thoughts, actions and expressions of others, which in essence are different or not exactly like themselves. Therefore Tolerance is a concept of cultural, ethical and moral, and even regulatory / legal nature, which is mainly expressed in interpersonal relationships within society.

From my point of view, Tolerance is an Ethical Principle derived from the Moral Value: Respect, understanding Moral Value as the "Set of qualities of man as an ethical, ladies and universally recognized as guide moral action, and which are the foundation rules, attitudes and principles. they are those values perfect man, making it more human and virtues to be a better person "

Therefore from this perspective, the Ethical Principles are "judgments, beliefs and cultural values, where it is determined if some actions are right or wrong and that a group of people with similar interests share" is used to regulate the behavior of a community, so that if the group members assume as their own, propitiate that their existence is lasting.

Following the same line of thought, the Moral Value: Respect, is the foundation or cultural roots from which emanates the Ethical Principle: Tolerance.

Then Tolerance is the conscious acceptance of Moral Value; Respect, to regulate all acts of his life in social interaction with their peers.

The Moral Values and Ethical Principles, as in this case the Moral Value: Respect and the Ethical Principle: Tolerance, can be studied, assess and standardize for "inventory of opinions" and research in the field of Humanities, Science Communication and Educational Sciences (Teaching example).

regards

Dr. Jose Luis Garcia Vigil

PS: Annex one of my publications where these apply Moral Values and Ethical Principles, and standardized, using them in the development of an instrument for measuring and evaluating the ethical perspective of medical students.

"tolerance can only be a burden to bear, and not a mixture of burdens and benefits"

A benefit of tolerance is to live in the kind of society when more new/original ideas can be created because there is no solid paradigm that can be sometimes "a prison for mind".