Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Respect Earned By Fear Or Love?

I think that respect is earned more by fear than love. If you scare a person, than they are more likely to follow what you are saying and respect you than if you were to just be kind and show them love. If you are too nice, people may just walk all over you. But you have to be careful as to how much you scare a person. The fear of you may turn into hate for you, and after a while, the person may stop listening to you and start resenting and hating you. Take parenting for example. If you are always tough on your kids and you scare them into respecting you, then they may end up hating you. But if you show your kids love, and are always kind to them, then maybe a while from now, maybe when they have kids of their own, then they will see that you were always kind to them even when it was hard, and that would turn into a strong love for you.

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