The Rise of Tolerance in the West

Tolerance is perhaps the prime virtue of a liberal society, and most people will come in with a prejudice for tolerance. How could you be against tolerance? I'm not against tolerance, but I do want to submit it to a fairly close scrutiny in terms of what it's actually doing. Always tolerance is about the management of some undesirable element or foreign body invading or taking up residence within the host. We surely need some kind of tolerance just to live with other people, don't we? Absolutely.