Alain,
Great subject.
Respect is probably the biggest human tool available to anyone in this world.
Much is said about love and understanding, but little about respect.
Although love can overcome huge obstacles and understanding goes a long way to healing rifts and differences, repect falls into another level altogether.
Respect helps us to deal with even those things we don't understand. There are people in the world who hold views abhorent top me and most reasonable humanbeings, but, that said, I respect that those people arrived at that opinion via a process that I have either not been exposed to or seen in the same way.
If I can respect their choice or right to feel that way I can the START to understand and only then can I mount a defense or a movement to stop it's growth if I view it as a threat.
It is an awful fact that, if we had no extremes of views in the world we would become apathetic and thus vulnerable if such a threat appeared.
Let us all try to respect all of the views that people hold before making a decision. After all, if you show respect, people are more likely to start a dialogue. That in itself is a start.
Roger
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