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I would definitely not be able to spend my life with a prostitute, if that's what you mean. I struggle to see why you don't respect people of particular occupation, though. It seems that you have no respect for anyone of industry that disagrees with your personal ethics. Firstly, I believe anyone working in this country is owed a certain degree of respect regardless of occupation. People who work keep the country going. Additionally, it's not as if people working in said "unethical"/"inhumane" fields chose to work in that industry. Do you think "baby pig slaughterers" dreamed about slaughtering pigs when they were 9 years old? People in less-than-ideal occupations are simply victims of circumstance, very much like I'm not the famous-war-hero-singer-actor-billionaire-CEO-pilot I once dreamt I would be. You yourself can probably be categorized in the same manner (do you have your dream job?) From this perspective, you should be able to indentify with those individuals on some level and allow them respect for what they do. Many of those people you dont respect work hard every day to feed their families. Said points aside, even if everyone did work in their ideal occupations, and "goose liver processors" did "some inhumane thing like that" by choice>> By showing them no respect for their own decisions and ethical standards, you do not foster an environment in which individual opinion is respected. That is, if you think their value system is crap, what makes yours so much better? Even out of religious context, the "golden rule" applies. I'm not advocating extreme relativism here. Respect others if you care to be respected.
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