What is the meaning of with all due respect? I say it because it brings up questions like: What is the difference of with all respect to: Due Respect? What is wrong or right with disrespect? Is it right or wrong to insult someone with all due respect?
When I say with all respect, I mean submission to authority: even to those whose authority I obey. Meaning I respect those who direct me by saying: You are directing us when you tell us to go home. When we obey, then our masters, our God, ourselves, and all others can do with us as they please. But when we don’t, we have all the rights to tell them to go home because that’s what we’re doing.
With respect to whom? It means to obey those who are wiser than ourselves. Meaning those who understand us better than we do ourselves. There are only a few people who see beyond their base and understand that we need to listen to each other and see the differences of good and evil before making judgments. But I say that anyone who doesn’t see and understand that point clearly should be told to “Sit down and shut up!”
Now if I said to you: “Joe, with all respect you’re wrong”, what would your reaction be? Would you tell me why I’m wrong and tell me what I’m missing? Or would you try to argue with me and tell me what I don’t know. In essence: would you say: “With all respect you’re wrong because I know what’s best for me, what’s right for me, and what’s the correct thing to do.”
That is how I see human beings: That is how I grew up. You don’t know much but you know who you are. We are all individuals, and we each have our own place in the sun…
So when someone insults you in any way: whether it is written on paper or spoken, you need to show them with all respect that they are wrong. Don’t let them get away with it. If someone tells you that you can’t have something because you don’t know how to get it, tell them: “You obviously don’t know what you’re talking about, and I didn’t get it from anywhere.
So please tell me where I can find what I want.” That’s simple common sense, and yet we don’t do it.
