How do you feel about respect? Do you feel that it is something that should be given freely, or is something that must b

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Her-Excellency — 9 years ago(October 01, 2016 11:32 AM)

I haven't read through the responses, so not sure if someone has mentioned this or not, but I think you're confusing respectfulness/politeness with respect.
There is a HUGE difference.
Everyone should be afforded politeness and respectfulness (until they show in some way they do not deserve it).
Not everyone is deserving of respect (/admiration).
If you go around showering respect on everyone, then who really is deserving of the respect you give?
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RotundoMagoo — 9 years ago(October 01, 2016 01:46 PM)

It's kind of been discussed but there are different kinds of respect, there's the admiration kind and the basic human kindness kind, I'm mostly talking about the latter.

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cat_fitz — 9 years ago(October 01, 2016 12:46 PM)

I think some people mix up respect with courtesy, and do so to justify being assholes to complete strangers.
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