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CMV: The use of titles/honorifics is arrogant and there should be no social obligation to abide by them.

I see the whole prospect of expecting someone to use their title as really arrogant whether it be nobility titles, academic titles, titles of authority, etc.

The way I see it, if I were to address the president as Obama instead of Mr. President, the Pope as Francis not using Your Holiness, or a respected scientist just by their first name not using Dr., etc, they would understand that they are being referred to and that is the only purpose a name is really supposed to serve.

Expecting to be called by a title feels to me as if they think they should be seen as superior to others and hence arrogant.
gpt
Titles and honorifics are a recognition of the work and/or contribution that somebody put in. With the exception of old-school nobility by birth, such titles are *earned*. They cost society little, but they act as a social reward (and possibly incentive) for doing the work, effort, and contribution. They are a sign of social respect for what that person has done.

Now, you personally may not respect that person or care about how or why they got that recognition, but then there is a social cost to you when other people are put off by your failure to respect the work and effort of others, the social institutions that we've built, and the social norms for how we recognize these things.

In that context, it is *you* that are arrogant. You are thumbing your nose at both the effort and contribution of the person who earned that title as well as the social agreement that this is how we show respect for such things. You think you are so important that you can just ignore the principles by which everybody else in society uses to interact. It means you aren't trustworthy or predictable in how you will behave around or with others, perhaps being disrespectful or embarrassing to be around.

If you have reason to not respect a particular *individual* because of something bad that person did, you may take exception from applying the title to *that person*. But forgoing the whole thing because you don't want to do it is like doing anything rude just for your own interests: refusing to hold doors open, cutting in people's lines, downloading a car. Well, not sure about the last one.