Being feared or being respected! Which one is important?

[Gibiin-Udug]

Would you want to be feared or to be respected?


Personally being feared, you will earn their respect when they fear you. Fear should come first, if they fear you, they can't say shit to you or about you meaning it's a form of respect.

 

[Grigori Rasputin]

Prince Macheveli spoke about this and he advocated for fear

But

Dad islaam baanu nahay naxariisto ba ka fiican

 

[Duchess]

Why would I want respect when fear gets the job done?

 

[gurey]

I dont know many people that are respected and not feared.

 

[Quruxleyadaa]

I think respect inspires fear- for those that you respect highly you are afraid of losing their approval (such as parents).

 

[VixR]

Fear isn't a true form of respect. At your weakest moment (and that moment will come, it's only a matter of time and circumstance), you will be dragged for filth with no regard.

Respect has to be gained, but once gained it holds true unless you prove reckless, and it gives people regard for you in your weakest moments so that they will still listen to you even then. Fear has to be sustained and fed constantly.

 

[Mercury]

I rather be respected than feared that respect lasts alot longer than fear

One day that person Will stop fearing you Well unless you do something to em

 

[merka]

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear." - Albert Camus

 

[RudeBoi]

Niccolo Machiavelli discusses this exact question in his book called "The Prince".


"Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. Because this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you. And that prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected other precautions, is ruined; because friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot be relied upon; and men have less scruple in offending one who is beloved than one who is feared, for love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

Nevertheless a prince ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he does not win love, he avoids hatred; because he can endure very well being feared whilst he is not hated, which will always be as long as he abstains from the property of his citizens and subjects and from their women. But when it is necessary for him to proceed against the life of someone, he must do it on proper justification and for manifest cause, but above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony"

 

[Reign]

Respect.

Fear is temporary. No one will fear you as an individual, they will fear what you have and what you can do. If you lose all that than people will be ready to destroy you. But if they respect you, you will always have a place in them and you dont know who will come to your rescue at your lowest due to their respect for you.

 

[Cognitivedissonance]

Keep your respect laakinse iga cabso!

 

[Cognitivedissonance]

If not then I'll be coming for you like Jason voorhees..