Journal Entry 5 Stranger (+ New Philosophy)

... Since my old philosophy didn't follow the old guidelines, I'll make a new one, (I thought that we could have more fun with it than was told. Forgot to check the blog, since I knew what to do, sorry!).

New Philosophy: Respectism

Note: most of these rules come from the basic foundations of chivalry.

• All who are created are provided with the potential to give respect to others- comes from chivalry, of how everyone should treat people with utmost respect.
• Respect has the power to create a peaceful coexistence. - If everybody respects one another, than there would be no reason for quarrels.
• Respect can be given, or taken - If a person does an inhonorable act, there respect is taken from them.
• The path to redemption is to respect the one who you disrespected - If a person apologizes for something they did wrong, then they can be forgiven by the other person, thus giving his respect back and earning the respect of the other person.
• Being respectful in ones life can grant you eternal peace within ones self - If you are always respectful to everyone, then you don't feel guilty or bad because you do not do any harm to them.
• This peace is the highest degree of respect - The peace created can make a person live a life of ultimate bliss, without a care in the world, since he/she does not have to worry about conflicts with others.
• If this peace is lost, it can never be obtained again. - If someone did a spectacular thing, it is almost impossible to get respect back from others as they would all hate and mistrust the person.
• One must achieve control over their physical and mental desires in order to become truly respected - If a person can't help but do inappropriate acts, then they'll never get any respect from anyone else.

Now, Mersault severly contradicts with the philosophy of respectfulism. For starters, he does not give anyone a heart-filled response, always answering in small phrases like, "I don't really care", (or something along those lines). He is always disrespecting peoples feelings, like Marie for instance, she asks consistently if he loves her and he always say that he doesn't really know. At the very least Mersault can give her a decent response. Another thing that Mersault does is he has no control over his physical desires. I mean really, he openly said that in a movie theatre he fondled Marie, he could have given her more respect and maybe just kissed her and that's it. That is his main physical desire: he lusts for Marie. Those are how Mersault conflicts with the philosophy of respectfulism.