Violence does not promote respect, it promotes fear, which is completely different.
Fear and respect are both things which may cause one person to defer to another.
However, fear goes hand in hand with hatred. Respect grows out of love.
Actions taken out of fear are forced upon a person, whereas actions taken out of respect are based on personal choice and freedom.
It is my belief that there are many types of violence, both physical and verbal. If your actions somehow hurt someone else, physically or psychologically, you are doing that person violence.
None of these violent acts that you might inflict upon another person will ever gain you respect or love. It will only gain you hatred and fear.
Which, in turn, only begets...
even more violence.
Quite possibly towards you.
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