Eeyup. It's time for my first rant! So lets get started~

Rant topic: Love and Tolerate

Rant level: possible foul language, possible hate, potential for hypocrisy, 50% chance for headaches, 80% chance of butthurt

(Surprise! It's not about alicorns! Oh, but that rant will be coming real soon. And it will be a doozy~)

Okie dokie.

So first, I will say that the phrase "Love and Tolerate" doesn't bother me in the slightest. In my personal opinion, "Love and Tolerate" looks better on shirts and images (like the one I have here), but it's a nice little moral thingy to live by if you happen to be into those kinds of things. *shrug* Personally, I don't follow the motto thingy (though I do have a t-shirt that says it.) I follow a different motto; do unto others what others have done unto you~

Anyways, my slight problem is with people who seem to think that you need to "Love and Tolerate" EVERYTHING. ._.

From my understanding (and mind you, I'm probably wrong about this), "Love and Tolerate" means to come to an understanding that not everyone will think like you, that everyone is going to be different--either by looks, ideology, or what have you--and that you should just "love" and "tolerate" them, because that is just how they are. Now, from what I also understand, L&T does not apply to uber bad people like murderers (cold-blooded murder, not self-defense murder mind you) and rapists, etc.

I think we could all agree to that, at the very least.

Yet some people think L&T applies to EVERYONE. Or EVERYTHING.

Buuut it doesn't~

So, let me split this into two parts:

To the uber pro-L&Ters: If you truly want to believe that you should L&T /everything/ and /everyone/, then have at it hoss. But don't push your ideology onto others, because you are only going to get verbally torn a new asshole.

And to the uber anti-L&Ters: L&T does not mean you need to L&T everything and everyone. Yes, there are silly people out there who swear up and down that you /need/ to follow it, but don't pay them any mind. Ignore-list them if you have to. But the phrase does not need to be abolished, and people who wish to follow the motto--uber or not--are not idiots or band-wagoners or whatever the hell you may have been calling them. So just calm your balls down and let them live their life and you live yours. If you can't handle people who follow the motto for whatever reason, then the ignore-list is your friend. (And pro-L&Ters, this goes for y'all too.)

So yeah.

Not a very long rant. This isn't something that bothers me, to be honest. (There is only one thing about this fandom that pisses me off to ungodly amounts of seething anger, but this ain't it.)

But I've always been intrigued at the odd debates this simple little... motto?... causes. Anyhoo, I apologize for any headaches you may have gotten~

Byyye~

From your intrigued alicorn-loving lurker,

Wolfie~