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Self-respect is usually spoken of as sentiment. Read as policy, it makes specific and testable demands of whoever is in office.
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18 June 2026 6 min readTRS Policy Desk
Self-respect is usually invoked at rallies and then left there. Treated seriously, it is a policy test: does a citizen have to plead for what is already theirs?
By that test, a queue is a policy failure. So is a scheme that requires a recommendation letter, and a grievance system with no published response time.
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