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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen
I see common ground between you: there often remain social pressures to extend respect to people for whom we do not feel it.
I once knew a woman who exhorted her children never to show respect to another person unless that person had earned it. I wanted to believe she was just expressing herself poorly, but she had ambitions to become a psychologist. I didn't feel much respect for her after that (though there was much else lacking in her behaviour... I could give a list) but common courtesy meant that I would continue to extend respect to her, but maybe that's more about being British 
Of course, I wouldn't show this respect to someone who'd outright insulted me, but then who
would?
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I have a bit of a dim view of psychologists, particularly analysts, in general, given the ones I have had contact with in the past. Shortly after my first ex and I broke up, I was encouraged to seek out psychological counseling although I didn't really feel the need. The psychologist I went to was highly regarded and, at one time in his career, was the head of a prominent US national psychologists organization. I only went to him for a short time; the bulk of his 'advice' was a marriage breakup wasn't the end of the world and I should just move on; there was also the problem that once he knew I played guitar and had been in a few bands, he would spend a large portion of the rather expensive hours talking about how he could have been a jazz horn player if he had only stayed in New Orleans in college. The great and rather tragic irony is the psychologist's own wife left him: he came home from the office to find his wife had cleared out all the furnishings from their home and just left behind a letter saying she was was leaving and telling him to address any future communications to her lawyer. The psychologist took his own advice and did move on, with the aid of a bottle of booze and an overdose of barbiturates...
There seems to be something perverse in seeking out a career listening constantly to the miseries of others and thinking you are immune to the vicissitudes of life merely because you have a PhD or MD after your name...
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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen
And what would I do if I ever met Justin Bieber?
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I can't specifically advise you, but I will say if the encounter should result in the 'disappearance' of Beiber, I, and many others, would be very happy to rpovide you with an alibi...
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