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user-inactivated · 3671 days ago · link · · parent · post: The great white shark has an image problem
Personally I would say acknowledging the risk of surfing in areas with great white sharks and taking care not to deliberately provoke them isn't a showing of respect but of measured caution. Respect would be something more like acknowledging their importance in the underwater ecosystem and refraining from killing them for that reason. But I understand we may have differences in semantics with respect to those words.
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user-inactivated · 3671 days ago · link ·
I just don't like when people say they "respect someone (or something) for their power" or "for the fear they evoke". As I mentioned below in my own thread, it reeks of sycophantism and power worship, even if it's because their connotation is different from mine.