(December 5, 2019 at 5:07 pm)tackattack Wrote: I agree that relating respect to power is wrong. I personally hold a lot of people in very high respect, but they don't have any power over my decisions. They may influence those decisions and are weighted at a higher value than someone I don't respect, but with personal accountability in play, no more power than I give them. That's the crux, people only have power over you if you give them that power and jockeying for respect is a way to accumulate that power. Few sheeple realize that the control and influence limits exist solely within their control.
Interesting second point.I would be honest with people I respect and don't respect equally I think. I think we can be conscious of the power dynamic, empathetic to the results our words will have and awareness of the power dynamic for all three things simultaneously and separately. I don't think they're necessarily correlated in all instances. Commonly though they can be conflated.
Well, like I said, it depends on whether or not one correlates respect with power. It sounds good to say you'd be willing to be as honest with your boss as you would be with your coworker, but I'm not sure how much I buy it, LOL.
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