Recognition, Acknowledgment, & Endorsement

I think that sometimes it is difficult to confirm someone we disagree with. The most challenging part for me is to realize that I'm probably not being totally fair with them and then to adjust my responses accordingly. Most of the time people think that by acknowledging someone's point of view as valid means that you have to agree with them, which is not the case.
I think this chapter has helped me a lot in realizing the different ways we confirm and disconfirm each other and the various levels of confirmation and disconfirmation. Before reading, I thought that recognition and acknowledgment were one and the same. But now I know that recognition is the most basic confirmation (recognizing another's existence), and acknowledgment is the next level up (acknowledging that person's feelings, thoughts, and what they have to say). One level of confirmation that I've known about but never had a clear definition of until now is endorsement. Endorsement is the strongest confirmation and is when you not only acknowledge somebody's thoughts and feelings, but you also accept them.
I think the main difference between confirming others as people and endorsing particular ideas is that you have to confirm others in order to endorse them but you do not have to endorse others in order to confirm them. What I mean is that because endorsement is the strongest confirmation, you must first recognize and acknowledge the person before you can reach endorsement. However the same is not true for confirming others as people, because you can confirm someone as a person just by recognizing their existence; endorsement is not required.