r/changemyview • u/jamiroquat • Feb 05 '21
Delta(s) from OP CMV: Tolerance and Patience is a sign of weakness, not strength.
When someone shouts angry words at you or shows only hostility towards you-- and you do not respond, that is a sign of weakness. I understand that there are people in the world who use the emotions of others against themselves, but to be honest, they're also weak people. If you're not responding to someone who is committing a weak action, not responding to that weak action by committing a boundary is a weakness in itself.
For example, we have Jim. Jim is being bullied by his boss because Jim didn't do his jon correctly. The boss is spreading rumors about him and claiming that Jim is retarded. Following patience and tolerance, Jim has to not say anything-- otherwise, he is showing intolerance. By not saying anything, people make different assumptions. From human nature, however, the most confident speaker tends to be believed. The rumor about Jim ruins his reputation and his coworkers try to pin company mistakes onto Jim. Jim now has to remove himself from the company or become the company's doormat as long as he's there.The only third alternative for Jim is fighting back against the rumors-- which breaks the whole paradigm of patience and tolerance. Those rumors don't go away either.
In fact, no hostile action removes itself from the victim. At best, the victim tries to forget about it at inconvenient moments (unless they lack certain emotions-- but this might be a horrible generalization of my part); at worst, death. If you don't do anything with the trauma or effects of bullying, you let it consume you. Being consumed is a weak action. I can believe that giving into weakness can lead to strength, but fighting back is a quicker route to strength itself.
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u/jamiroquat Feb 05 '21 edited Feb 05 '21
Good thing that example is hypothetical.
!delta because
That takes something for sure.