Why must society tolerate so many homeless on the street?
This is a relationship that a society cannot tolerate and still maintain the social contract.
A healthy society should not tolerate any form of racism.
But just as society does not tolerate crime, neither should it approve of incivility.
No human society has ever tolerated the entire range of instinctive, "natural" human behavior.
The same society may not tolerate statistical discrimination when it is applied to protected groups.
But you can be sure that our society will not long tolerate the uncertainty of the cup.
"But no society can tolerate that kind of dissonance forever."
A modern society cannot tolerate an education system that closes itself off to poorer students by failing to support them.
Perhaps for this reason, society has tolerated extreme inequality and is still largely silent on the issue.