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by drooogs 2028 days ago
respect is orthogonal to agreement. why would it even be necessary to say you respect someone's decision if you agree without reservation?
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Respect seems incompatible with airing your criticisms to strangers on the internet. That, to me, is not respectful.
My aunt passed away a few years ago now. Her husband will never read this. The rest of the family agrees with me as far as I know. I don't see who I'm disrespecting by publicly and semi-anonymously questioning those decisions in retrospect.
Victimless disrespect is still disrespect.