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Respecting Those You Mistrust or Dislike

Dialogue requires Mutual Respect, but this doesn't mean you can only maintain dialogue with your buddies or with people you really admire. You can respect even those you mistrust or dislike.

Respect doesn't require solid friendships/trust but it does call for the ability to see the humanity in others. It means that we see others as worthy of the civility we owe any human being?that no matter what happens in the conversations, we're not going to violate the other person's dignity. Period.  

Recollect numerous instance when I have not followed what I written above and when I look back now…regret losing my cool everytime. Hopefully will do better in future.  Let me know what you feel/think about this subject

Posted in Philosophy.


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  1. warm sunshine says

    agree wid u..everyone has their perspective n we shdnt be judgemental..from our end we shd show civility and decency..rest is the other person’’s class n style

  2. Noanee Kapadia says

    the person you dislike will also have negative feelings about you ,so as to not increase more negativity within your self I think I AGREE YOU RESPECT THE PERSON forhis unknown good qualities and go ahead in life.

  3. Sarath Chandra says

    Respect, I think, is too big a word to give people one mistrusts or dislikes. I think the more appropriate word is civility. Trishna’’s rule below is something I try to follow :)

  4. meena sundar says

    u r right….give respect to all.

  5. Trishna Mumbai says

    I follow a simple rule. I give every person I meet the benefit of being respected. If I dislike them or mistrust them, I just become oblivious to them. So they dont exist for me anymore. I do not want to invest in them, not even hate - no. T

  6. nitin bhatnagar says

    u r absolutely correct, i think these small things make human beings a better creature in comparison to animals