Respect rooted in self-cost is a hallmark of personal sovereignty, as Epictetus said, "It's not what happens, but how you react."

Many words have taken on a whitewashed colloquialism. I am a firm believer however in how words have meaning. If a common understanding of meaning is lost than we lose the ability for communication and understanding. Look at the attack on meaning the woke have waged around gender and all that. It’s a socialist tactic to destroy the common ground of understanding we all share.