Monday, June 12, 2006

Just a little more respect please

In my mind, respect is a very simple concept. You treat others as you would like to be treated. You give them the same courtesies that you expect to be given. You shouldn’t even have to think about it. If you were in that person’s shoes, how would you like to be treated? That person is a human being just like you. You disrespect them, you are disrespecting yourself.

Judgement is an enormous waste of time. What makes you so superior that you think you get to decide what is right and wrong? What do you gain from snubbing your nose? Do you feel better about yourself by belittling others? Those of you who believe in a higher power, do you honestly believe YOU are in the same league as your deity as to pass judgement like a god?

I try to avoid the narrow shitheads who like to think they are above everyone else and beyond reproach. Nothing you say will ever make them change their misguided beliefs. But sometimes my nose gets rubbed in it so often I just have to blurt my little piece into the ether. No one who needs to hear it will listen, but at least I said something.