Tolerating a conundrum - well, not, actually

Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Sorry, but we can't just pick and choose what to tolerate: "Now we are having to defend things we disapprove of, such as the glorification of terrorism or, indeed, calls for censorship. The conundrum that one of the things liberals have to tolerate is intolerance hasn't needed to be at the forefront of debates on free expression before. It is now, and it should be."

The rest of this aricle is pretty much what i think. And I'm not a "liberal". However a conundrum - and that is what this quote accurately describes - is not a principle, or even a policy. It is exactly a conundrum: a paradox, a riddle, even a fanciful question.

In reality, being tolerant means refusing to tolerate intolerance. When my kids refuse to share their toys, their intolerance is not tolerated.