The Importance Of Love: The All You Need Is Love

As intelligent beings, the ability to tell right from wrong should be as innate as eating when hungry. Love has an immense variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that range from interpersonal affection to pleasure; LOVE is often categorized as the most important virtue to civilization. It has also been massively pointed out by social media as the “cure” for all the problems society faces. I completely disagree with the “all you need is love” slogan of social media; I believe the most important virtue to civilization´s progress and evolution is respect. Being respectful to and with each other is what the world needs. We have all been taught to love one another and it seems that our world continues down the same path. Every violent

You can only respect others if you know what it means to be respectful. Respecting the rights of others starts inside you, in the importance of respecting yourself before anything or anyone else. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines respect as a feeling of admiring someone or something that is good, valuable or important and as high or special regard for someone, something or any other entity. You can´t expect respect from others if you don´t even respect yourself. Once you have established that respect for yourself it will be projected through you, through the way you talk, move, eat and live in general. Logic dictates that if you respect yourself there is no reason for you to be disrespectful to anyone. Why might you do the something to harm yourself? If you respect yourself, being mean, deceitful or disrespectful to someone else is like shooting yourself in the foot. Respecting yourself but not respecting others might as well be like writing about people’s inequalities while eating a steak and drinking a glass of a 1987 Marilyn Monroe Merlot, in other words, that is just