I think homo sapiens is no longer capable of respect. One of the many reasons I instead refer to Caino hypocriens.
Respect is startlingly easy to diagnose: if you obey someone you don't fear, it has to be due to respect. This may even be a definition.
However, I have literally never witnessed this. Every single instance of obedience on record has been an incarnation of fear. The queen of hell (=Earth) is Phobos.
It's curious, because it shouldn't be genetically possible. That one can conceive of respect as a possibility means that it must have been possible in the past. To be completely absent in behaviour, it has to be completely removed from the gene pool. If it were still physically possible, some folk would show respect by accident once in a while. There's no way that there's a selection pressure strong enough to
eliminate this particular mutation in a mere millennia or two. Odd.
On the other hand if it's a spiritual mechanic, where genes 'by chance' just so happen to converge on spiritual reality, it is not at all hard to explain. Nor the reason respect came be to considered a sin in the first place.
The above may be a definition, but it's not worth checking since it doesn't exist. As worthwhile as minutely defining a unicorn. "This leprechaun is in fact 1.5 millimeters too tall." Skip.
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Why would there not be a strong selection pressure against showing respect ? One might be disliked for showing respect to anyone whatsoever alongside the person who receives respect thus both have lower social status hence the selection pressure? Ehat do you think?
Reading comprehension.
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