I profoundly disagree. Respect is quite costly. To pay respect is to efface oneself, even if only in a marginal manner. Exercising respect is a discipline. No discipline is ever truly cost-free, IMO.
How are you this fine day, FRiend?
> I profoundly disagree. Respect is quite costly. To pay respect is to efface oneself, even if only in a marginal manner.
Interesting. I wouldn’t have thought being Respectful cost anything. In my paradigm everybody is entitled to Respect at some level and in some way. Everybody without exception. So by being Respectful I’m merely giving something that is due anyway.
Respect is only a choice: I get to choose how I interact with anybody at any given time. Each choice is merely an adjustment in attitude. And as I have limitless and infinite self-respect, showing somebody else Respect doesn’t come at a cost of personal effacement.
Respect isn’t the same thing as deference or capitulation or effacement. It’s merely an acknowledgment of the other person’s worth and/or worthiness. As such, it costs me nothing.
> Exercising respect is a discipline.
Yes, it certainly is, and it isn’t a particularly easy one to learn for some people. Once you’ve got the hang of it, though, it comes as a second nature.
> No discipline is ever truly cost-free, IMO.
True. Yet being undisciplined is almost always costlier, IMO. For example, somebody who is undisciplined with money will probably never amass a personal fortune: he’ll waste it all instead.
> How are you this fine day, FRiend?
(Grin!) I am very well thankyou! And how are you?