Advanced age on its own doesn't warrant respect. Living a good standard of life at an advanced age does.

Perhaps there's some connection between Oddworld and having cruel fathers.

...said the foolish sociology student

Not to piss on your theory, but my dad is awesome.

Yeh your new dad, the guy who actually is your blood father is a douche, trust me, he's typing to you right now...dun dun dun.

Well... My dad was pretty terrible. He has a high temper which resulted in a pretty messed up, painful childhood.

But now I just argue with him whenever he gets tempered cos he cant really do anything to me anymore.






Anyway yea. Elders should have some respect I guess. if only because they lived for so long. but if they do anything that makes them not deserve respect, then I wont respect them. Yeah.

Everyone starts off with me respecting them, it's how I like to be treated from the word go. Over time, depending on actions, people lose my respect until it gets to the point where I don't give a fuck about them. There are still some people I know that haven't lost any of it and most of them are my peers.

I wouldn't respect all elders but I suppose they are entitled to some deference. I mean, they're older and quite possibly wiser than me.

if they kick shit out of me when i try to mug them, they deserve my respect.

As long as they stay off the fucking road and quit hitting my friends in cars. I don't appreciate being almost killed every morning when I drive to school cause a geezer can't tell if a light is red or not.

My philosophy is much like ridg3's, you get a moderate amount of respect points from the get-go. Those super special respect points either get added or taken away as I get to know how the person is like. Once the respect points get too low I just don't even look at them.

Unfortunately I've found that cocky old men like losing their respect points, but why should they give a shit?

EDIT: jesus this is the awful dad forum