О лажним и стварним границама толеранције
About False and Real Limitations of Tolerance

Summary/Abstract: In principle, the democratic system tolerates any kind of deviations from the “normal” if it does not lead to violence or noninstitutionalized upheaval. In reality, however, economic liberalism and liberal democracy do not settle easily, which occasionally led to criticism of the very idea of tolerance. Criticism from the left, which claimed to have discovered the hidden ideological consequences of the principle of tolerance, is wrong- because it believes that the state of “repressive tolerance” can be overcome with some “new philosophy of community.” Again, like many times before as the solution is provided a nostalgic return to the community as a kind of “lost paradise” (but without democracy, freedom and individual rights, including moral). However, it is equally wrong to think that individuals can solely and completely independent from the society, to build a kind of “moral law”. Morality is an immanent need for society in terms of assets to curb the personal greed in favor to the imperative of collective life, and, in principle, has to be equal for all, or – it does not exist in any way. Solid limit of tolerance of all possible individual norms lay in the “paradox of tolerance” which states that highest degree of freedom imply that some freedoms have to be quite disabled, first of all- the “freedom” to destroy freedom itself. To be added to the previous also are the restrictions related to the symbolic survival of each specific socio- cultural system, including those who are considered to be “modern”, “open” and “democratic.”

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