Every human being is due honor and respect just by virtue of being human, which means embodying a divine soul, made in the image and likeness of God.  Because we are only human, we are scarred and marred, but those are superficial blemishes.  Look deeper, and you will perceive the glowing radiance of a holy soul. Develop eyes to see the soul, and bow down in honor.

So great is the honor of created beings that concern for honor overrides even a negative prohibition promulgated by the rabbis. ~ Talmud, Berachos 19B

~ Alan Morinis