Concept · #respect
Respect
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Pity is a form of disrespect, and fundraising that runs on it harms the people it claims to help
I've used a wheelchair since I was fourteen. I've been prayed over in shopping centres, praised for "being out and about", and used in charity campaigns I was never asked about. So I'll state my thesis plainly. Thesis: pity is a form…
Started by Dima Nasser5 replies -
Strangers grab my wheelchair to help without asking. Is unasked-for help a kind of disrespect?
It happened twice this week. On a ramp outside a ministry in Amman, a man took the handles of my chair and pushed me up, talking to my colleague the whole time, not to me. In a shop a woman lifted my…
Started by Dima Nasser3 replies -
Most passengers never greet the driver. Is a small courtesy a moral matter, or only manners?
I drive the 413 across Ankara. Some passengers, when they get on, say kolay gelsin, "may it come easy", which we say in Turkish to anyone who is working. Most say nothing. They tap the card and look at the phone. It…
Started by Serkan Aydoğdu2 replies