-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 11-29-06  15:16 <=-

 MK> I hope we understand each other now.  I think we do.
 
I'm thinking so, too... :)

 NB>> To some degree, yes, I've had to, especially the physical,

 MK> Me too.  I was forced to relearn that quite awhile back and still have
 MK> problems with that.  The ol' grey mare just qin't what she used to be.
 MK> :-( 

No, and physical therapy only goes so far, too.

 NB>> other ways.  Not that I've attained completely by any means... which 
 NB>> is why I referred to it as a process... 

 MK> As it should be methinks.  Would you have it any other way?

Um...  Put it that way, no.    Just imagine having it all needing to
be learned at once, and the situation(s) that would force that to
happen!

 MK> Yes but if respect needs to be forced in the first place then
 MK> insincerity would have to be built in.  That is why I chose to define
 MK> respect as the real feeling without the latitude part.  The point is
 MK> that I do recognize that the latitude is required in day to day
 MK> dealings with others but in all honesty that doesn't mean I really
 MK> respect these people although most people that I do deal with on a day
 MK> to day basis I do happen to respect.  That isn't always true though.

Which all goes back to where we started, where I was musing about the
different ways in which the word respect was used... :)  I think we both
agree that the situations in which you would use the term "respect" to
describe your feelings is the primary usage of the term.  And, further,
that that is probably the level of respect that others expect to get
from us, even when they *don't* actually deserve it.  Which is where I
think that some of the seemingly contradictory uses of the word stem
from.  Where we differ, it would appear, is that I am willing to use the
term respect also in the sense of respecting the person as a person, and
therefore deserving a certain degree of latitude in dealing with.  But
that is turning out to be more a semantic thing, after all... :)

And we don't always get a choice as to who we have to deal with..   
It's nice when most of them turn out to be those that we can respect,
especially when it becomes a long-term thing... :)

ttyl         neb

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