Respect your opponent

In sports, politics, class, or family, it is easy to look at someone who competes or thinks differently as a threat. Then you no longer want to understand them, only to defeat them. Respecting your opponent does not mean approving of any idea. It means remembering that before you stands a person with dignity, a history, and reasons you might not know. Charity is also at stake in disagreement. Defending the truth does not require despising the person in front of you.