yes, I’m reminded of the counterintuitive predicament of whether it’s intolerant to not tolerate intolerance. This is the dilemma in which western civilization finds itself bound. The problem is that if you don’t tolerate intolerance you become yourself intolerant. But if you tolerate intolerance than the intolerant will destroy the tolerant. So to protect the tolerant it is required to be intolerant, becoming the monster you sought to defeat. And so around it goes in the perfectly vicious circle of human nature. The iranians, to secure liberty cannot tolerate the intolerance of the mullah’s and their followers must be brutally suppressed. The leadership will then be condemned for it.
We’ve seen this movie before. It always ends the same way.
“He who fights with monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster.”
Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Sounds like catch-22.