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What is respect? Is it admiration for someone you love and value? Is it a societal construct, a rule narrated by others and blindly followed? Do you respect older people simply because they are older, or because they have earned that respect through wisdom and experience? And if they haven't, do they still deserve it? What about other people: younger, weaker, with disabilities, etc? Is respect a feeling, an action, or something else entirely?

But do we really respect other people, maintaining the social distance and boundaries, wondering if they are comfortable? Do you lie to people? Some of you already know that I despise lies. That’s why I am straightforward — sometimes to the point of seeming rude. But my role here is to ask the uncomfortable questions. So, is my directness a lack of respect, an unwillingness to cushion the truth with comforting deceptions? Or is it, in fact, the purest form of respect — offering truth because I believe people deserve reality, not illusions?

If you respect someone, do you lie to them? Do you tell them what they want to hear, or do you trust them enough to handle the truth? A hard truth may sting, but deception is a slow poison that erodes relationships.

Do not lie — especially to those closest to you. Trust is the foundation of any meaningful connection, and without it, you have no close relationships at all.

Respect is not just about how you treat others; it’s about how you treat yourself. If you truly value your time, you can now use the (horizontal) swipe gesture for adjusting playback speed, so you don’t spend more time than necessary on parts of a video that don’t (de)serve you(r time).

(these posts are not ai generated)
- Claude