Allowing for the possibility I'm [unintentionally] just quibbling over words / symantics....
Or maybe I'm that I'm taking rhetorical flourishes too literally. But around here, when rhetorical florishes are about individuals, they tend to take off.
I think people are entitled to respect, until they've demonstrated through some repetitions of unsavoury behavoour that they dont deserve it.
So that it should not be that people have to EARN respect. It should be that they get respect until they've conclusively demonstrated they dont deserve it.
We're all going to have different thresholds about how much someone has to do to disentitle themselves from respect.
But I think that saying that someone has to EARN it back after one 'transgression' is beyond the pale.
