As intelligent beings, the ability to tell right from wrong should be as innate as eating when hungry. Love has an immense variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that range from interpersonal affection to pleasure; LOVE is often categorized as the most important virtue to civilization. It has also been massively pointed out by social media as the “cure” for all the problems society faces. I completely disagree with the “all you need is love” slogan of social media; I believe the most important virtue to civilization´s progress and evolution is respect. Being respectful to and with each other is what the world needs. We have all been taught to love one another and it seems that our world continues down the same path. Every violent
You can only respect others if you know what it means to be respectful. Respecting the rights of others starts inside you, in the importance of respecting yourself before anything or anyone else. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines respect as a feeling of admiring someone or something that is good, valuable or important and as high or special regard for someone, something or any other entity. You can´t expect respect from others if you don´t even respect yourself. Once you have established that respect for yourself it will be projected through you, through the way you talk, move, eat and live in general. Logic dictates that if you respect yourself there is no reason for you to be disrespectful to anyone. Why might you do the something to harm yourself? If you respect yourself, being mean, deceitful or disrespectful to someone else is like shooting yourself in the foot. Respecting yourself but not respecting others might as well be like writing about people’s inequalities while eating a steak and drinking a glass of a 1987 Marilyn Monroe Merlot, in other words, that is just
The 5th commandment in the old testament of the catholic bible states: “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you”(Mark 7:10). Being raised in a family with 2 older siblings helped me learn all about respect, respect to the elder as well as the younger. There was only peace in my house when all three of us learned that respect was the key to our freedom. If there was peace at home we could all do as we pleased as long as it was peaceful. I think that if there were more parents like mine, not specifically catholic but those who teach by example and teach respect above all else the world would be a very different place. If I were to say that my house in my neighborhood is a city in a country I would be proud to say that that city is a peaceful one, if every city in that country were like my house it would be a very peaceful and progressive country, and the same could be said at any level. Respect is what makes the difference in moving forward or backwards. Let’s say that I were to invite all of our neighbors to a business meeting, we would all have different points of view, opinions and beliefs because we all think differently. The difference would be shown in the respect we have for one another, it would allow us to explore all the differences in a respectful conversation