I have been watching with interest what people such as Samantha Maiden have said about Grace Tame pulling faces and playing political games. There had been, previously, an unspoken assumption that the Australian of the Year was designed to be unifying as opposed to overtly party-
2. political. Morrison leaves me cold, but at the same time, the question that presents itself is how should a professional deport themselves in circumstances such as someone else's big day - in this case Dylan Alcott. I was taught that it was about them and not to make it about
3. me. It is insulting to say that the expectation of manners should be altered or mitigated by virtue of someone's personal history. If there are varying rules of behaviour for people depending on their individual circumstances, then manners are a dead concept and society will
4. become very violent because laws are designed to outlaw us from harming one another and manners were designed to signal a basic level of respect so as to stop us from wanting to harm one another. In an ordinary interaction, who knows what has occurred in another person's life?
5. Thus the concept of manners needs to be objective - treat people with the respect that you would wish to be treated. This isn't an edit to suck up: one can be both respectful and polite to people we don't like without being a sycophant or an apologist.
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