Does everyone need respect?

Humans have evolved strategies of cooperation. A certain amount of respect is innate. It's not about deserving or teaching respect. When someone smiles at you, you smile back, naturally. read more

Need. To be respected. To be taken seriously. To feel relevant. To be considered worthy. To be noticed. Not to be treated with contempt. Example. Members of a street gang follow few rules, but respect for one another is key. One of main reasons outsiders do not like them is because they show no respect to other people. A successful teacher bases her method on giving and requiring respect to and from all pupils. read more

If you want to know why people want to be treated with respect, then your quest to treat everyone with "respect" will never complete, as you will always be called disrespectful for a multitude of things from various people, no matter what you do, or how nice you are. read more

Respect is an overall evaluation you give someone based on many factors – what that person is doing with their life, how they treat you and others, whether they are honest or not and if they seem to consistently do good things, large or small, for other people. read more