ABSTRACT
Tolerance always has boundaries related to things that are considered intolerable: nobody can tolerate everything and no society can function without defining some things as beyond tolerance. This chapter deals with the ways in which people draw the boundaries of tolerance by considering things to be intolerable. Specifically, these reasons involve, first, the harm and rights principle and the related processes of moralisation and the weighing of moral values. Second, there is the importance of group continuity and collective autonomy that sets limits to what can be tolerated. And third, people consider reciprocity and maintenance of the democratic order as important boundary conditions for what can be tolerated. However, the toleration discourse with its boundaries is a malleable narrative that can be used for different purposes, including for oppressive ends will be discussed and demonstrated empirically.
