everyone deserves your respect until they do something to prove you wrong and that goes for any age...i hate society yet i still follow that!!!!!!!

that was very very good, you should be a comedian xD

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Originally posted by risika2004:
They grew up in a different time era, and around that time there really was such a thing called, "respect."

Totally. Elders deserve our respect because they have survived the sort of tough times we can only dream about. Each and every morning (because weekends hadn't been invented yet), they got up and walked seven miles through the snow to get to school, without shoes, because, you see, there was a Depression going on, and shoes were a luxury. After school, they walked another five miles to their job, where they worked until midnight for a meager eighty cents a month. Luckily back then, thirty cents was enough to buy a lifetime supply of licorice, but you didn't waste your money on licorice, because back then there was something called financial responsibility. If you did spend money on licorice, see, your dentist bills would skyrocket (and dentistry was painful back then, they didn't have novocaine like you lucky little raggamuffins have today), and since insurance hadn't been invented yet, dentistry costs were sky-high, sometimes upward of $2. That all changed when Roosevelt became President, though, which is why our family voted for him for seven consecutive elections. Where was I? Oh, right, no, you can't have $20 to blow on something as stupid as a movie, because that's how much my first car cost. Don't give me a bunch of bull doodoo about inflation, either. Inflation would have never happened had the Baby Boomers known how to walk past a shop window without reaching for their checkbooks. Back in my day, see, people thought ahead, and we had something called morals, yesiree bob. We didn't have any Jennifer Simpsons or Nicole Hiltons parading around wearing little more than oven mitts. Back in our day, gentlemen wore hats, which was why crime was down 800%. In fact, I'm not even sure crime had been invented yet. And...hey, I'm talking to you!

Okay, I'm done. In all seriousness, I pretty much agree with the rest of you. Respect has to be earned, and no age group should automatically gain our respect. But our elders really have been through a lot, and so long as they don't go into rants like the one in the paragraph above, we should give them a shot and a chance to impart their wisdom.

I feel somewhat like Celtic. I think you shouldn't respect people simply because they are old but because they deserve your respect.

I respect whoemever I want to respect. Age is not a factor.

I agree with bauhaus to a certain extent. The part I agree with is that we, as a people, shouldn't give respect to the really old guys that hit on teenagers and molest them. That's just wrong and gross. But there are elders out there, such as our grandparents, that we could still show some kind of respect too right? I mean, unless they have done something to physically harm us, shouldn't we show them some respect? They are there for us when we can't go to our parents or even when our parents just don't understand us and our grandparents will always love us and have something to teach us.

I agree. However, a lot of the reason that old people treat the young like crap is because elders are more traditional. They grew up in a different time era, and around that time there really was such a thing called, "respect."