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Which is why I said I disagreed slightly. You earn respect. 'Negotiating', as you pointed out, can be summarised as 'earning' too (which is why whydoismellbacon wrote earn/negotiate ).
And you are dead wrong that my third point contradicts anything I said. What I was getting at is that 'ensalving and forcing' by itself doesn't work. You won't ever get real respect if you're enslaving and forcing someone.
However if you're a tyrant, the most ruthless son of a bitch in the area, you'll get people to truly respect you. Of course the majority of people living under your tyranny will resent you for it the same way anyone in the 'enslaving and forcing' example would but one of the reasons dictatorships work in the real world is that the inner circle of a system like that contains loyal, often fanatically devoted, supporters of the tyrant.
You're not being offensive, this is Voat, I wouldn't be offended if you told me to go fuck myself with a cactus. I think you might have read too much into my original answer though.
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Which is why I said I disagreed slightly. You earn respect. 'Negotiating', as you pointed out, can be summarised as 'earning' too (which is why whydoismellbacon wrote earn/negotiate ).
And you are dead wrong that my third point contradicts anything I said. What I was getting at is that 'ensalving and forcing' by itself doesn't work. You won't ever get real respect if you're enslaving and forcing someone. However if you're a tyrant, the most ruthless son of a bitch in the area, you'll get people to truly respect you. Of course the majority of people living under your tyranny will resent you for it the same way anyone in the 'enslaving and forcing' example would but one of the reasons dictatorships work in the real world is that the inner circle of a system like that contains loyal, often fanatically devoted, supporters of the tyrant.
You're not being offensive, this is Voat, I wouldn't be offended if you told me to go fuck myself with a cactus. I think you might have read too much into my original answer though.