為何尊重很重要-Why Respect Is Important

　　Why Respect Is Important

　　Going back in time, respect played an important role in survival. If we think of a small tribe wandering in the desert,we can imagine that a person not respected by anyone could be left behind and die. Such a person was considered to have no worth, no importance, no value to the group.

　　This,  I believe is the foundation of our psychological need to feel respected.

　　Nowadays it seems much more possible to survive without being respected. Someone could, for example, inherit a large sum of money, have many servants and employees and have salesmen constantly calling on him and catering to him,yet not be respected in the least. Someone could also make a lot of money through having a particular talent which is valued, such as being able to dunk a basketball yet not really be respected, perhaps because of the way he treats others.

　　Still, there is a value to respect which money can＇t buy.Though someone＇s life might not depend on it, there are times, many times in fact, when another person has the chance to make a personal decision--a judgment call. When that person feels sincere respect for someone else, they will make a different decision than if they feel no respect, even if they have customarily shown a false, pseudo-respect to the person.

　　In summary, it is for both evolutionary and practical reasons that respect is important, and also why we simply feel better when we are respected.

　　為何尊重很重要

　　回顧歷史，尊重在人類生存史上起了舉足輕重的作用。想象一下，一個小部落在沙漠里徘徊，一個不被別人尊重的人肯定是要被遺棄，獨自死去的。這樣的人是被認為沒有用的，無足輕重，對整個團隊也沒有價值。

　　我相信，這就是我們在心理上需要尊重的根本原因。

　　現(xiàn)在，不被尊重而能生存下去的幾率似乎大大提高了。比如說，有人繼承了一大筆錢，擁有大群仆人和雇工，還有商販時不時來為他提供一切所需，然而他卻不被人尊重。有些人還可以通過一些寶貴的才能賺很多錢，例如擁有灌籃的才能，然而或許是由于他對別人的方式，他也得不到別人的尊重。

　　然而，尊重包含著有錢買不到的價值。盡管有些人的生活并不依賴于此，但有時，甚至是很多時候，當別人有機會自己做決定的時候，此時的判斷就源于此了。如果那個人真心地尊重某個人時，他們所做的決定就與其不尊重甚至只是客套地表示虛偽的尊重時所做的決定大相徑庭了。

　　總而言之，無論是從進化還是現(xiàn)實的角度來看，尊重都非常重要，也是為什么我們在被尊重時感覺總是好一點的原因。