I respect as a matter of professional art, adroit rhetoric, and I know that all politics is a combination of rhetoric and reality.
They won't respect a verdict no matter how it was reached and they will always present a threat to George and his family.
Thus, appraisal respect is a matter of degree, depending on the extent to which the object meets the standards (so, we can respect someone more or less highly and respect one person more highly than another), and it can co-exist with (some) negative assessments of an individual or her traits (judged in light of other standards).
He thinks that he should be accorded respect as a matter of course, not as a generous impulse, and he doesn't easily make friends with the white players who like him.
As someone who lived in Iran for 16 years and now works full-time on Iranian matters, let me say in no unclear terms: there is no rational justification whatsoever to think McCain would be a better choice in any respect on a matter relating to Iran.
Then there is the delicate matter of respecting a weary and impatient audience: city residents for whom Sept. 11 seems like yesterday, for whom the trauma of the World Trade Center disaster is fresh.
Although not required by law or military regulation, members of the uniformed services are encouraged to render salutes to recipients of the Medal of Honor as a matter of respect and courtesy regardless of rank or status and, if the recipients are wearing the medal, whether or not they are in uniform.
This sort of respect, unlike appraisal respect, is not a matter of degree based on your having measured up to some standard of assessment.
Although persons are the paradigm objects of moral recognition respect, it is a matter of some debate whether they are the only things that we ought morally to respect.
But it is almost impossible to prescribe with any greater precision what is worthy of such respect: that is a matter of perpetual debate and negotiation, not just about what is ultimately right but what can tenably be argued without being manifestly offensive.
