Respecting your elders only made sense in the past when people had to be smart, wise, and talented enough to survive into old age. amirite?

How about respecting everyone unless they give you a reason not to…?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

You can be civil to all people but respect is earned, not automatically given.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Yup

by Anonymous 3 years ago

But there is a difference between respect and manners.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Just cus your smarter then someone that doesn't mean you shouldn't respect him

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Ding ding ding!!! Respect has never meant you have to agree, or even like each other. Just be civil. It costs you nothing.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Actually, if you're smart, you are respectful.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

*Than

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Pretty sure it's Then

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Young people have always hated old people and always will. You're not the first and you won't be the last. If you live long enough to be old, young people will hate you too and for exactly the same reason you did. That's just how time works.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

As a reaction to vice versa

by Anonymous 3 years ago

The appropriate term for this is juvenoia . It's in our genes and will continue to be.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

You may have a point. Darwin has not been able to do his job.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Lmao Darwin isnt *thinning the herd* like the good ol days

by Anonymous 3 years ago

As an atheist, I pray to Darwin every day that he may cull the weak as he did in days of old.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

jacob seed culled the weak but he wasn't atheist, in fact he was the opposite

by Anonymous 3 years ago

go slap your grandma then

by Anonymous 3 years ago

The sort of thing said by someone who is too naive to understand the value of wisdom or that it is wildly hard to find on line and too young to realize it is wisdom that tells you what knowledge is valuable.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Yeah but not all (or even most) older people and seniors are smart, sane, and wise.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Most are sane, and nearly all who survive carry more wisdom than the young. Wisdom is given, earned through tragedy and struggle, or the result of age.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Agree - wisdom is gained by being knocked down by life and learning from it.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

You should read King Lear by Shakespeare. It's well arguable that wisdom is not the product of age or tragedy, but is the result of foolishness and hindsight.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I read that in Yoda's voice

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Well I'm an idiot but I know that if I don't get myself killed or get a terminal illness I'll live to at least 70

by Anonymous 3 years ago

You know that? Damn, what's your secret?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Confidence.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I told you I was an idiot

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Lol fair enough

by Anonymous 3 years ago

This is why an old man was pushed off his feet by police.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

They pushed him off his feet because they are police, not because they are younger than him. Bullies can be any age

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Still true enough that they had to reproduce though, at least in the case of ancestors rather than "random old dude on the street"

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Damn ... truth bombs

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Is this question a joke?

by Anonymous 3 years ago