Why do they get to use the police state to abuse people if they get disrespected?
Absolutely insane that the surveillance state is expanding (even more!) and this is what you're concerned about.
Because making respect contingent on "whether you agree with the issue or not" is a great way to make everything devolve into partisan tribes, eg. "anti-abortionists: why do baby killers deserve respect?"
It is when that issue is personal privacy and our fundamental rights. Why would I want to respect them when they want to further dehumanize us?
You really can't see why this can't be applied to abortion as well? I'm not even against abortion and I can see the problem with what's essentially "if you you disagree with them enough you don't have to respect them".
No amount of whataboutisms or ignoring history since before writing ("eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind", etc) will ever make this look like a good move and you should seriously reconsider whatever media you've consumed that have distorted your values this far.
... so by your own logic, engaging with you further would be useless because you're only moderately familiar with democratic principles?
> Moderately so
You also asked for my credentials and told me that it would be useless to continue speaking to me if I didn't have the experience you expected, which doesn't strike me as a good faith argument.