[javert]

If this is your attitude, you will never earn my respect, and rightly so.

People should be treated with respect until they have shown they don't deserve it.

Your comment here betrays a nasty perspective on the human race.

[venomsnake]

> People should be treated with respect until they have shown they don't deserve it.

Is this an axiom (in which case further discussion is pointless, since your world view is incompatible with mine) or something you could prove.

[gress]

It's pretty simple. If you do otherwise, then you are doing a lot of needless harm.

[javert]

I wrote an answer, but HN gobbled it up because it said I was posting too fast. I don't want to write it again.