I like to think that I give a LOT of grace
to folks who are birds of rare plumage. I have to.
I like to be congruent and consistent with my own values and match my behavior with those values, too.
However, when someone is beyond the 3rd standard deviation from the mean . . .
and relentlessly relates to others in a word choice and style which makes “haughty” a wimpy word . . .
AND THEN demands of others something opposite to their own behavior . . .
What crumbs of respect may have been left get tossed to the birds.