Concept of Information Violence and European Ideology World Tolerance
In the information society age, there's a clear demand in a certain approach towards the limits of permissible in the area of communication and information exchange. Тhe concept of information violence is оne of such approaches. Within the libertarian views, the concept allows to mark clearly, where the limits must be placed; however, even in case we don't share the libertatian views and consider violence to be acceptable in certain situations, the notion of information violence at least lets us to be aware of possible social tension sources. Besides that, the information violence concept demonstrates certain explanation power in areas not directly related to the information society. In particular, it is known that information violence is inavoidable in open public places where each individual transmits at least the information about his/her look, and everyone being in the same place have to accept this information. Effect of such violence is moderated by everyone obeing certain culturally-imposed (but in general not formalized) rules that match what all the others expect; this match is secured by the fact all the individuals belong to the same cultural context. If, however, someone, who represents another cultural context, does not follow the rules the others expect, this case of public information violence becomes more serious- actually, to the degree where it can be no longer ignored. From this point of view, the demand of tolerant behaviour is effectively a demand to quietly accept violence; not only this has nothing to do with individual liberty, but it directly contradicts the very notion of individual liberty.