Interesting view. I see permissive as a negative and cowardly trait. Say a father knows his daughter is using illegal drugs. He knows this is wrong, illegal and dangerous, yet he says nothing in order to avoid conflict in their relationship. I see church leaders as being permissive of worldly sin because they don’t want to call out evil. I see teachers as being permissive by not calling out child abuse by other teachers. I see parents being permissive when they keep their kids enrolled in agenda camps in hopes of a sports scholarship. I believe we are are living in a time of extreme permissiveness by not calling out right and wrong. Tolerance and the you do you culture got us here. I really enjoyed your post.
Well, not an expert here but I would take a stab it. I would guess being tolerant means that you are not accepting of a behavior - yet let it continue. I would think being permissive is while you don't condone the behavior yourself or for your family that you are ambivalent toward those that condone the behavior.
I think it goes along the mindset would be - TOLERANT means you realize it is wrong but that you do not believe yourself to be the authority to speak up and correct the behavior. While being PERMISSIVE is that you realize that behavior is wrong for you but you are accepting of other people's behavior.
While you do not have to address every WOKE school system and government agency - being tolerant - is rejecting playing along and identifying a man as a woman or vice versa. Whereas being permissive is realizing it is wrong but playing along with the woke ideology anyways.
While there are definitely semantics at work here - a TOLERANT policy would not penalize another child for not recognizing a trans-child as the sex that they want to be recognized as. A tolerant policy would not be punitive towards children teasing the trans-child for acting abnormally. A PERMISSIVE environment would require children to play along or risk punishment while not having to admit that the policy is based on a lie.
That is from my perspective - I hope that helps - and from a Christian perspective I don't think we can participate in being permissive. We should be able to accept tolerant policies that do not require us or our children to play along with the recognition of a lie. When a school has a permissive policy that expect our children or us to play along with a lie or be punished - that goes against Biblical principles.
Interesting view. I see permissive as a negative and cowardly trait. Say a father knows his daughter is using illegal drugs. He knows this is wrong, illegal and dangerous, yet he says nothing in order to avoid conflict in their relationship. I see church leaders as being permissive of worldly sin because they don’t want to call out evil. I see teachers as being permissive by not calling out child abuse by other teachers. I see parents being permissive when they keep their kids enrolled in agenda camps in hopes of a sports scholarship. I believe we are are living in a time of extreme permissiveness by not calling out right and wrong. Tolerance and the you do you culture got us here. I really enjoyed your post.
Thanks for answering!
What is the difference between being tolerant and being permissive?
Well, not an expert here but I would take a stab it. I would guess being tolerant means that you are not accepting of a behavior - yet let it continue. I would think being permissive is while you don't condone the behavior yourself or for your family that you are ambivalent toward those that condone the behavior.
I think it goes along the mindset would be - TOLERANT means you realize it is wrong but that you do not believe yourself to be the authority to speak up and correct the behavior. While being PERMISSIVE is that you realize that behavior is wrong for you but you are accepting of other people's behavior.
While you do not have to address every WOKE school system and government agency - being tolerant - is rejecting playing along and identifying a man as a woman or vice versa. Whereas being permissive is realizing it is wrong but playing along with the woke ideology anyways.
While there are definitely semantics at work here - a TOLERANT policy would not penalize another child for not recognizing a trans-child as the sex that they want to be recognized as. A tolerant policy would not be punitive towards children teasing the trans-child for acting abnormally. A PERMISSIVE environment would require children to play along or risk punishment while not having to admit that the policy is based on a lie.
That is from my perspective - I hope that helps - and from a Christian perspective I don't think we can participate in being permissive. We should be able to accept tolerant policies that do not require us or our children to play along with the recognition of a lie. When a school has a permissive policy that expect our children or us to play along with a lie or be punished - that goes against Biblical principles.