[–] 11 points 1 week ago

Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

https://kottke.org/18/05/the-respect-of-personhood-vs-the-respect-of-authority

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    We are against private companies tracking you across state lines on behalf of the police. We are not against toll cameras, speed cameras, red light cameras that enforce rules at a single point.

    I'd wager this driver just thinks he's above paying tolls, or bring punished for breaking traffic laws.

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