What Commands Your Respect?

GSPODS · Post by **GSPODS** » Tue May 06, 2008 7:47 pm

Age?
Experience?
Record?
Reputation?
Other?

Does being older, more formally educated, more experienced, or being more lauded by the media command respect by default? Not to my way of thinking. Otherwise, every Strom Thurmond want-to-be would command respect by default.

Does anything command respect by default? Not to my way of thinking.
Even self-respect is commanded, not demanded. One cannot simply order oneself to respect oneself. One must earn one's own respect, and often at a higher standard than that which is set for others to earn our respect.

Does the respect of others, or the perceived respect of others warrant equal respect in return? No, it doesn't. It is entirely possible for respect to be a legitimate one-way street.

What commands my respect? By definition, nothing. I have not been known to refrain from intruding upon nor interfering with (fill in the blank).

So, the question is: What commands your respect? Anything?

respect -
1. esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person
2. a personal quality or ability.
3. something considered as a manifestation of a personal quality or ability.
4. deference to a right, privilege, privileged position, or someone or something considered to have certain rights or privileges; proper acceptance or courtesy; acknowledgment.
5. the condition of being esteemed or honored.
6. favor or partiality.
7. Archaic. a consideration.
8. to show regard or consideration for.
9. to refrain from intruding upon or interfering with.
10. to relate or have reference to.

Bob 0119 · Post by **Bob 0119** » Wed May 07, 2008 11:56 am

Other.

Respect is earned, not freely given. Apart from that the order goes

Reputation
Record - which would fuel reputation
Expirience - which would be shown by your record
Age - which could tip the balance as to how much expirience you have, to justify your record, and determine your reputation.

for me anyway.

GSPODS · Post by **GSPODS** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:12 pm

I was beginning to think people assumed this was a rhetorical question. It wasn't.

Irn-Bru · Post by **Irn-Bru** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:21 pm

That's too bad, because rhetorical questions are what earn my respect.

GSPODS · Post by **GSPODS** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:33 pm

Irn-Bru wrote:That's too bad, because rhetorical questions are what earn my respect.

In that case, would you be either symmetrically or diametrically opposed to a position of opposition by supposition or intuition? Would the resolution, the problematic solution best be answered by evolution or by revolution? To these answers, I would gladly lend suggestion, if I only knew the question. :shock:

(I don't have the first clue what I just posted. It sounded rhetorical at the time.)

Bob 0119 · Post by **Bob 0119** » Wed May 07, 2008 2:37 pm

Nah, I just don't get to get on here as much as I'd like. I usually do while I'm at work. It's not that I don't have a computer at home, it's just that by the time I get home I don't want to be near it if I can avoid it.

Even in the heat of a dispute!