“I don’t get no respect,” comedian Rodney Dangerfield used to say.
These days, a lot of Americans can identify with Dangerfield’s tagline. Search online for “is respect disappearing?” and a boatload of articles jump to the screen. In one of these pieces, Rev. Ron Rolheiser asks, “When did we lose that deeply-engrained, forever-sanctioned sense that however much we might disagree with each other or even dislike each other, we still need to accord each other basic courtesy, respect, and politeness?
