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Respect is given
Disrespect is earned
It took me too long to adopt this mindset with my own family.
"Respect is earned" - dickhead who expects to be respected by everyone else by default
I think that most of the people that say "respect is earned" just think of what respect means. Respect can either mean treating someone as your equal or treating someone as your superior.
I kind of think of it as politeness and humanity are given first, and then respect (or disrespect) is then earned.
Similar but like you said it depends how you define respect.
I think being polite is one way to show respect to other people, but there are many others.
I agreed, it could be considered that. You can also be polite to people that you don't respect. It's semantics or personal context at some point.
"Fuckin' earn my respect then, jackass"
I got a lifetime ban from Reddit for an answer like that
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