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Originally Posted by Aliantha
If you decide you're not going to tolerate intolerance, then you're in effect being intolerant yourself. This of course leads to the point that when you become what you dislike, you're no better than the thing you dislike.
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Some differences are deserving of tolerance, being matters of faith and opinion. Other differences are not. Often those differences have to do with an unwillingness to recognize proper boundaries and domains...a desire to impose by force (of government, or of arms) one's values on others.
Militant Islam is an example of this. So are the more extreme forms of fundamentalist Christianity. So is the form of socialist collectivism currently styling itself "progressive". All three of these examples are desirous of using political and legal power to impose their values on others, claiming that the proper purpose of law is to enforce one brand of morality (their own), rather than being a mutual agreed formal system to make it posible for differing value systems to operate with minimum interference and conflict in the same social space. Usually the justification for this is both circular and memetic: "My value system says imposing it on others this is the right and moral thing to do".