THE DEATH OF RESPECT

What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you?

It is obvious that respect is something that is almost completely dead and both the authorities and individuals have resorted to using brute force to intimidate and subdue people. This is especially true in the Western societies; disrespect is almost a normalized behavior.

It is rather sad because respect is very important for a society to be a sane one. If people don’t have respect for themselves, other people and the authorities, they are not going to have respect for life.

Respect precedes empathy. The West makes it a morality show to talk about empathy. They even put signs on electric poles with empathy inscribed on them. It is usually very laughable because for starters, I’ve met the most unempathetic and inconsiderate people in the Western world.

Whenever I go online, I see conversations where people normalize deliberately occupying a parking spot especially when you see that someone else is (impatiently) waiting for that spot. Others normalize aggressive road usage. These all stem from the place of disrespect for one’s self and others.

So for me, disrespect is a big red flag in a person whether it is covert or overt, direct or indirect, towards me, towards someone else or towards oneself. You may be the best thing since fried ice cream, but the moment I witness you dish out disrespect especially unprovoked, you’ve lost 100% steeze with me.

Something I’ve always known from very early adulthood is that when people are blatantly disrespectful towards another person, they are “intent” on causing that person real harm including destruction by unaliving them.

How did I know this? Because when religious and racist bigots are about to unalive people, they start by dehumanizing them with blatant disrespect. They may call them infidels, dogs or monkeys.

The lack of respect is the underlying reason for all sorts of aggression. It is therefore no wonder at all that gun violence is very commonplace in the West.

So there, disrespect is the biggest red flag in any human. Disrespectful people are very likely to be hostile or violent physically, emotionally or mentally.