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   Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 05:45:48 JST Ned Yeung

   Just thinking about how wrong the phrase is, "You have to earn respect".

   No, you have to earn disrespect. As a human being, I'm naturally going to respect you if I don't know you. It's when you earn my disrespect, that I'll stop showing respect.

   I give people respect freely, until they prove to me that they don't deserve it.

   #musings

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 05:47:22 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @ned
     Yeah. Surely it’s possible for people to earn more respect than they started with, but that baseline that we offer to all human beings must be greater than zero.