Tolerance is said to be a medical term for the body's inability to resist the penetration of foreign bodies. And they add that full tolerance is death. This technique is usually used in disputes between supporters of traditional values and innovators in a particular field, but more often in the field of morals and public peace.
But the debaters are not right in everything. Yes, the term tolerance has not only sociological, but primarily medical significance. This concept refers to a decrease in
the body's resistance, weakening of the body's immunological response to the introduction of foreign genes into it. The word "tolerance" - a medical term - was first introduced by the English immunologist P. Medawar in 1952. The concept denoted the degree of susceptibility of the human body to transplanted organs, the adoption of foreign transplants.
Tolerance in medicine
When considering the response to transplant, tolerance is a medical term for the body's ability to not produce antibodies that could interfere with the growth of a transplanted organ with the body. That is, in some cases, it shows a positive reaction from the point of view of human health.
But there is also negative tolerance. Her medical nature is far more dangerous. This phenomenon occurs when the human immune system loses its ability to respond to the repeated administration of drugs, poisons, antibiotics, drugs, and similar substances acting on the body. There are two effects here. The first is that with each new dose of the drug or drug, its dose should increase. The second - the gradual intake of poisons makes the body immune to them, which was used, for example, by the Kerch king Mithridates, who feared poisoners. So much for tolerance (a medical term), but there are tons of interpretations!
In the sociological subtext
It is worth analyzing whether tolerance makes a society weaker or stronger. Does it allow the incorporation of alien organisms into the body of a social organism and, assimilating them, increase the general strength of a social animal or do these elements become original cancer cells that destroy the body, and the decrease in resistance as a result of cultivated activity allows more and more dangerous viral cultures to take over society ? Most likely, this trend in itself is positive for society.
Tolerance is a medical term that is accurate. Without a new organ, the body would become weaker. A closed aggressive society spends more energy fighting foreign bodies than a multicultural society that dissolves everything in itself.
Multiculturalism Is Not Political Liberalism
But in what case does multiculturalism become fatal? Only when the ceiling of the susceptibility of the public organism is exceeded. When the number of foreign cells begins to exceed the body's ability to assimilate. So in a dispute between traditionalists and innovators about the tolerance of society, it is not a fool or a scoundrel who will always win, but a sense of the measure of the legislator.