Respect

[dmj]

Yes respect is earned. The other thing is, it can take you years to earn it and 2 seconds to loose it.

 

[Phil Rizzo]

Due to whatever, it seems the world as whole has really been sliding down the wrong slope, perhaps accelerating in my view anyhow.
The past 10-15-20yrs.
It is expected, as we know.
I just hate seeing society value each other so little, and some so called governments, having even less for the people.

 

[carpassasin]

Thats interesting a lot of like-minded people.

 

[ofbandg]

Too many people choose their activities based on the respect they can get. I've had friends who entered the police force and hated the job but enjoyed the respect. I've had other friends become executives in a large corporation because the title brought them respect, even though they would rather have been working outdoors in the rain and snow than cooped up in an office. Sometimes life is about bargaining away bits and pieces of our happiness to get respect.

 

[Phil Rizzo]

Too many people choose their activities based on the respect they can get. I've had friends who entered the police force and hated the job but enjoyed the respect. I've had other friends become executives in a large corporation because the title brought them respect, even though they would rather have been working outdoors in the rain and snow than cooped up in an office. Sometimes life is about bargaining away bits and pieces of our happiness to get respect.

Interesting perspective, well said and true.

 

[skipglo]

"Respect" each other's right to live they want to live assuming legally of course. I don't care how you live nor do I expect you to care how I live.

Don't expect nor demand agreement or acceptance. This is the foundation of most arguments and or demands.

Huhhhh??? Didn't get a degree in Philosophy did you! Well ....I could Respect your effort here...no matter! I said COULD!

 

[Rosebud]

I high school we respected the football coach, he's the person who wielded the two and a half foot long paddle when serious punishment was handed out. I never knew of anyone getting more than three whacks. Mostly one did the trick.

 

[skipglo]

Too many people choose their activities based on the respect they can get. I've had friends who entered the police force and hated the job but enjoyed the respect. I've had other friends become executives in a large corporation because the title brought them respect, even though they would rather have been working outdoors in the rain and snow than cooped up in an office. Sometimes life is about bargaining away bits and pieces of our happiness to get respect.

Naaaaaaaaah!....with me what you see ( or don't see) is what you get...and if you don't like what you see....well... don't let the door hit your arse on the way out! Not sacrificing ones happiness or a families happiness deserves Respect in my books....but that's why we are all different I guess and why Webster thought he should make the Dictionary!....just me!

 

[Finln]

True respect is forged through principle and proven character, not demanded by default!

 

[bas402]

Though I did learn to respect that old Marine black leather belt that hung in the pantry when I was a kid.

Razor strap here, and yes I learned respect at an early age.

 

[Model19Man]

Too many people choose their activities based on the respect they can get. I've had friends who entered the police force and hated the job but enjoyed the respect. I've had other friends become executives in a large corporation because the title brought them respect, even though they would rather have been working outdoors in the rain and snow than cooped up in an office. Sometimes life is about bargaining away bits and pieces of our happiness to get respect.

Well those folks I think are missing the boat. The career I chose was because I liked the work. Any other reason means you will have to subject yourself to a job.

 

[Wendell Reich]

I high school we respected the football coach, he's the person who wielded the two and a half foot long paddle when serious punishment was handed out. I never knew of anyone getting more than three whacks. Mostly one did the trick.

I got 14 one day from Coach Moore.

I don't think he liked me much.

 

[HRM Johnny]

A little philosophy......

The word "respect" used to mean we held someone or an institution in high regard
or admired them. Over the last few decades, the word has degenerated into meaning
tolerate or tolerance. We used to respect the police and held the FBI in high regard.
They were respected. Almost any clergy was respected. Now we are told to respect
everyone's opinion on everything.

We have hunters telling other hunters they should respect the way they hunt. I
couldn't care less if a guy climbs up in a tree and ambushes his deer. Just as much I
don't care if a guy learns to read the wind and kills his deer from 800 yards. I
admire the patience of the ambusher and the ability of long-range hunter. But I
don't respect them. I don't even know them.

We encounter religious people who claim not to be religious and we are told to
respect them. Why? Some are so full of nonsense they can't defend their position
without resorting to emotional outburst. I remember one guy told me, "Don't raise
your voice, reinforce your argument." He, of course, would not be respected by
those touting respect.

I totally agree. Thanks for starting this thread.

 

[ntsqd]

I try to behave in a way that earns respect. I'm human, so I fail at that now and again. Doesn't alter my path. Some won't give it regardless of what I do. That too doesn't alter my path.

I expect others to behave in the same way, maybe even especially when I don't agree with them. Some refuse to do so and simply demand it. That does alter my path, I go around them when at all possible (even when some of them I'd prefer to just run over).

The coaches holding the paddles wouldn't earn my respect by merely their holding the paddles. Being careful to not give them cause to use those paddles isn't respect, it is self-preservation.
How they conduct themselves when they're not holding the paddles is what may or may not earn my respect. Of the dozen or more coaches I've encountered in my schooling I can only think of two who did not behave in a way that earned respect (one just an A-H and the other fired for messing around with a Cheerleader - how cliche' is that!). Several were exceptional men who were in the right place. One was my wood shop teacher and never actually my coach for anything.