RE: Can too much respect be bad?
December 11, 2019 at 11:14 am
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2019 at 11:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I was pointing out that you had already made those sorts of comments.
You very explicitly commented on what a soldier does and doesn't deserve, and even the possibility of them getting the respect even though their act was not equally fitting with respect to some other soldier that joined for some other reason. Comparative desert. You even laid out what people who respect you and have your respect deserved from you, as you see it, as well. Deontological desert.
Thing is, it doesn't matter what values or variables any given person has. The "fittingness" metric is value neutral. It works no matter what we plug in. Even though you have a conceptual wall with respect as social construct and morality as something else™, your comments about respect were explicitly moral in nature. That's not exactly surprising, since we can't discuss what people do or don't deserve without making a moral claim.
-or, for that matter, the hypothetical distance between the proper amount of respect and too much respect.
You very explicitly commented on what a soldier does and doesn't deserve, and even the possibility of them getting the respect even though their act was not equally fitting with respect to some other soldier that joined for some other reason. Comparative desert. You even laid out what people who respect you and have your respect deserved from you, as you see it, as well. Deontological desert.
Thing is, it doesn't matter what values or variables any given person has. The "fittingness" metric is value neutral. It works no matter what we plug in. Even though you have a conceptual wall with respect as social construct and morality as something else™, your comments about respect were explicitly moral in nature. That's not exactly surprising, since we can't discuss what people do or don't deserve without making a moral claim.
-or, for that matter, the hypothetical distance between the proper amount of respect and too much respect.
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