This is like “respect is earned”.
No mother fucker, respect is the default. You’re supposed to respect everyone you meet. People can lose respect, and gain it back. But you don’t start at zero and earn your way to being respected. You respect every human you meet
i think it depends on your (not literally your!) definition of “respect,” no?
i respect complete strangers right to live their lives and try to follow the golden rule, but i feel like people who say “respect is earned” mean you have to beg to be treated like a person on equal person-footing.
i’m also not going to invite random people (or new neighbors, say) into my house for tea right off the bat, though. some might consider that disrespectful. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I would say that is trust vs respect.
Bumping this from my other reply to root in short form:
You are precious without working to earn it; what you earn is your share of the ability to live on this difficult earth.
Our society and economy are so complex, and many people will devalue you, value you wrongly, and do every evil under the sun. Others, I hope, will love you far more than you seem to deserve, and share with you at their greater expense.
But at the bottom of it, someone or someones, have to labour to earn the possibility for you to live. If no one labours, no one lives.
I don’t feel like he’s out of line at all, tbh
