Status is a valuable commodity, so behaving in a way that lowers someone else’s status is therefore acting against their interests; non-person objects generally have lower status than people, so treating people as though they were non-person objects is therefore acting against their interests.
Really, I think the list overcomplicates matters.
Status is a valuable commodity, so behaving in a way that lowers someone else’s status is therefore acting against their interests; non-person objects generally have lower status than people, so treating people as though they were non-person objects is therefore acting against their interests.
Yeah, I think this is pretty accurate.
Good point. I’d rather have people treat me like the Mona Lisa than, say, a stereotypical mother-in-law.