We live in an age when everyone in North America and beyond should fully accept that we are all different and that we need to be tolerant and respectful of others. Tolerance and respect cannot exist, however, without social reciprocity. We cannot prosper in peace without this “rule of reciprocity.”

In turn, the rule of reciprocity requires consistency and continuity. Tolerance and respect always have to go both ways. They are not a one-way street. One-way tolerance and respect will only provide short-lived solutions.

It is my strong opinion that fleeting reciprocity invites prosperity to slowly vanish into no man’s land.