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It's funny how the word "tolerance" already implies that something is bad but you just act as if it's not. You wouldn't tolerate having enough food and water, you'd only tolerate the lack thereof.
Not "bad", just "not your preference." I tolerate reality TV like 90-Day Fiance but it's not objectively bad. And, subjectively, it's better than most reality TV I've seen.
I tolerate eating Shin ramyun noodles when I'd rather be eating pad thai.
Similarly, you can tolerate people's life choices (e.g. "polyamory, as a relationship choice, or smoking weed", not "being gay or being trans" which is someone's intrinsic self) even if they're not your preference. And that doesn't imply anything about the choice.
And, as an aside, I think political polarization has erased the place of "tolerance" in discourse. Because now, tolerance looks like acceptance when a bigot wants to murder someone for choosing different. You have to vocally, enthusiastically be an ally to counteract the polarized hatred from the other side, and maintain some semblance of the world making sense.
Because its a bad faith argument.
It implies something has to be tolerated because it is outside of the realm of the familiarity you would otherwise personally accept innately. Not bad, just an admission of the fallibility of personal experience at being completely objective at everything.