“Respect should be reserved for the kind and the morally courageous. Pity is another socially valuable response, and it should be reserved for innocent people who are in genuine pain or who have fallen on misfortune.”
About This Quote
Stout suggests that rather than wasting our respect and pity for those who have no appreciation for them, we save it for those who actually need it. We should save these responses for those who have a conscience, the ability to empathize and the ability to reciprocate our respect.
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