Whether it’s worth working to resolve any disagreement over appropriate levels of respect is going to depend on the context, but certainly below a certain threshold object level discourse becomes predictably futile. And certainly high levels of respect are *really nice*, and allow for much more efficient communication because people are actually taking each other seriously and engaging with each other’s perspective.
There’s definitely important caveats, but I generally agree with the idea that mutual respect and the ability to sort out disagreements about the appropriate level of respect are worth deliberately cultivating. Certainly if I am in a disagreement that I’d like to actually resolve and I’m not being taken as seriously as I think I ought to be, I’m going to seek to understand why, and see if I can’t pass their “ideological test” on the matter.
Whether it’s worth working to resolve any disagreement over appropriate levels of respect is going to depend on the context, but certainly below a certain threshold object level discourse becomes predictably futile. And certainly high levels of respect are *really nice*, and allow for much more efficient communication because people are actually taking each other seriously and engaging with each other’s perspective.
There’s definitely important caveats, but I generally agree with the idea that mutual respect and the ability to sort out disagreements about the appropriate level of respect are worth deliberately cultivating. Certainly if I am in a disagreement that I’d like to actually resolve and I’m not being taken as seriously as I think I ought to be, I’m going to seek to understand why, and see if I can’t pass their “ideological test” on the matter.