Tolerance and Intolerance

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by cyberpi

I found some disagreement over these terms a few weeks ago, so I'd like to pose a question as food for thought with a bent towards the Gospels:

Which of the following is an example of a person who is tolerant or intolerant?

1. A parent who knowingly makes a food that a child does not like.
2. A cook that produces an unpopular food.
3. A cook that does NOT make the food the way you like it.
4. A cook that knowingly poisons the food with tainted yeast.
5. A person who can not stand eating a certain food.
6. A person who can not stand people who eat a certain food.
7. A person who can not stand the cook who makes a certain food.
8. A person with an allergic reaction to a food.
9. A person who tries foreign or unfamiliar foods... and/or unfamiliar cooks.
10. A person who shoots the cook.

Sounds like a cook feeding a Coast Guard cutter's crew...and in each example the correct answer could well be...BOTH and NEITHER. Depends on the cook and the crew members in question.

v/r

Joshua

[cyberpi]

Originally Posted by Quahom1

Sounds like a cook feeding a Coast Guard cutter's crew...and in each example the correct answer could well be...BOTH and NEITHER. Depends on the cook and the crew members in question.

v/r

Joshua

What a comfort to know the Coast Guard leaves discernment to the wind... or their own agendas?!

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by cyberpi

What a comfort to know the Coast Guard leaves discernment to the wind... or their own agendas?!

I think it is called life, and learning to live with the differences we all have, while yet being able to work together as a cohesive unit or society in microcosym...and apparently after more than 217 years of successful operations...we must have something right...

[YO-ELEVEN-11]

Originally Posted by cyberpi

I found some disagreement over these terms a few weeks ago, so I'd like to pose a question as food for thought with a bent towards the Gospels:.

sounds like fun. here I go.

Originally Posted by cyberpi

Which of the following is an example of a person who is tolerant or intolerant?

1. A parent who knowingly makes a food that a child does not like.
Tolerant

2. A cook that produces an unpopular food.
Tolerant

3. A cook that does NOT make the food the way you like it.
Intolerant

4. A cook that knowingly poisons the food with tainted yeast.
Intolerant with an attitude.

5. A person who can not stand eating a certain food.
Tolerant

6. A person who can not stand people who eat a certain food.
Intolerant

7. A person who can not stand the cook who makes a certain food.
Intolerant

8. A person with an allergic reaction to a food.
Tolerant

9. A person who tries foreign or unfamiliar foods... and/or unfamiliar cooks.
Tolerant

10. A person who shoots the cook.
Intolerant with a "complex"

[cyberpi]

YO-11-11,
I appreciate and can see how you take #5 and #8 as tolerance (not intolerance) because they are not in relation to another person... Am I right?

What I do not see is: Why are #1 and #3 different?

[YO-ELEVEN-11]

Originally Posted by cyberpi

YO-11-11,
I appreciate and can see how you take #5 and #8 as tolerance (not intolerance) because they are not in relation to another person... Am I right?

What I do not see is: Why are #1 and #3 different?

That's easy

# 1
A parent gives orders.
Tolerant. Until it harms the child.
ie: Knowing a child does not like a veggie is not intolerant. It is "Love" that makes it happen.


# 3
A chef takes orders.
Intolerant, beacuse adults order what they want.
ie. "Some" Adults are full aware what they order on a menu. They order what they like. Enough said........

[cyberpi]

YO-11-11
I believe I see. On #3 I was thinking more of a cook who over-salted the meat, left too much fat, over-cooked it, or dished a disproportionate amount of vegetables, for example... some quality not expressly stated in the order but by which a cook is often judged. I agree with you though that a cook who expressly disobeys an order is intolerant of something in someone.

In a sense though, in #1 I would suggest that the parent is intolerant of a desire in their kids, and is a servant taking orders. A child makes demands from day one after birth, and parents do willingly and necessarily serve those orders. Otherwise I was a fool doing all those night-time bottle feedings with the associated red-eye afternoons from the broken sleep... and for later allowing family democratic votes for what dinner would be.

I agree with you that placing details of the order reveals a tolerance or intolerance because a request or order is transferred and someone or something is accepted or rejected. Would you agree then within your definition that Jesus Christ was sometimes intolerant since he was a selective servant, accepting orders (requests) from some and rejecting others?

[YO-ELEVEN-11]

Originally Posted by cyberpi

YO-11-11
I believe I see. On #3 I was thinking more of a cook who over-salted the meat, left too much fat, over-cooked it, or dished a disproportionate amount of vegetables, for example... some quality not expressly stated in the order but by which a cook is often judged. I agree with you though that a cook who expressly disobeys an order is intolerant of something in someone.

In a sense though, in #1 I would suggest that the parent is intolerant of a desire in their kids, and is a servant taking orders. A child makes demands from day one after birth, and parents do willingly and necessarily serve those orders. Otherwise I was a fool doing all those night-time bottle feedings with the associated red-eye afternoons from the broken sleep... and for later allowing family democratic votes for what dinner would be.?

True, a child will demand. IMHO, the parent is not a servant, but is more like police person. "To serve and protect".

Originally Posted by cyberpi

I agree with you that placing details of the order reveals a tolerance or intolerance because a request or order is transferred and someone or something is accepted or rejected. Would you agree then within your definition that Jesus Christ was sometimes intolerant since he was a selective servant, accepting orders (requests) from some and rejecting others?

No, I do not feel he was Intolerant. In short, what they asked Jesus for may have not been on the menu that day.