Simpley put, has the attribute of respect been lost?
No.
I knew this was going to be a November 2012 registration before I even opened the thread.
Oh, and no.
If there’s no poll with choices for what I have lost my essence of respect for, I’m outta here.
Respect is earned, not given will ye nill ye. Today we value honest communication more than polite fictions, and I believe that this shows a greater respect for our peers than a hypocritical makee nice-nice ever did.
So, my answer is no.
Get bent.
Seems to me you are not asking a question, but asserting something and asking for the cause. I don’t accept your premise, so I can’t give you a cause.
Strange choices, why do this?
Leading poll question, you ask a yes or no question in the opening post but the poll appears to assume that one’s answer is yes. You’ve lost my respect, I think.
Respect isn’t dead…but it’s coughing up blood.
The reason it is imperiled is that there are so very many tactical advantages to disrespect. It’s more effective to silence a speaker by booing, heckling, chanting, and singing, than it is to allow him to speak and then offer a rebuttal. It works, and the sort of people who put ends before means know it, and are employing it. Vigorously.
(The bums…)
(I originally wrote something much stronger, but this ain’t the Pit, so…)
The old “Things were so much better in the old days” meme.
No. People have always acted like asses at times and they’ve always shown great virtue at times, it just depends on when you’re looking.
A whole lot changed in the '60s, some for better and some for worse. I was there, and I remember what things were like previously, and respect was very different back then.
I think it’s like there is only so much respect a person can give, and what respect was given has been redistributed over a wider audience, thus making it seem less than it was.
Sure, a WASP might be respected, but how much disrespect was given to minorities? Heck, do you feel that you were respected, seeing as you are gay?
The straight dope is…yes, the question is leading and yes there are only 2 real choices, but! Can the majority really say that respect for one another has not worsened, I mean just for example the simple fact that it’s almost to common for one person to call another a bitch, their bitch, my bitch or your bitch. CHOICES, I think there are many so please suggest what they might be that is why the OTHER choice is there. I posted this theard because I believe respect for one another is major something that can’t be taken for granted. Something I think is interesting is that in jails most inmates would tell you that haveing and showing respect is what keeps you alive in prison. I could go on about fundamentalists for what ever cause if it’s legal deserver some repect “freedom of choice” you have to respect. I don’t even what to go near the issue of respect and religion, but make no mistake the issue is big in this area.
Perhaps the Civil War?
[INDENT]After the war, southern whites struggled to maintain social dominance. Secret vigilante and insurgent groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) instigated extrajudicial assaults and killings to keep power and to discourage freedmen from voting, working and getting educated. They also sometimes attacked Northerners, teachers, and agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau. A study of the period of 1868 to 1871 estimates that the KKK was involved in more than 400 lynchings[/INDENT]
Perhaps I don’t understand the true nature of respect, but I feel it involves not lynching someone. Or turning someone’s country into a colony.
Respect is more than not calling someone bad words. It wasn’t until Loving v. Virginia in 1967 that interracial marriage was finally allowed in all states in the US. Gay marriage is still forbidden in much of the US. You can legally discriminate based on sexuality in most of the US.
In the proper social context, what you are describing is a show of respect. We must remember that not everyone is a white, heterosexual American Protestant, and the social interactions between white, heterosexual American Protestants cannot be taken to be the default style of etiquette.
Who’s asking?
Poll question different from thread question, so I shall not answer the poll.
Right, the virtue of respect, as such, has NOT been lost. A particular notion of the forms of HOW you show respect is alleged by some to have been universally agreed upon AND universally practiced in the past, but it’s hard to gauge how much of that perception is biased. It may be that there is just as much respect today as ever, but the public display thereof has evolved so we are just not as concerned with phonying it up for appearances’ sake where there isn’t; or if you want to look at it from another angle, nowadays demands for greater respect often get derided as “political correctness”.
You couldn’t be respectful enough to give any potential respondents an honest range of choices. Obviously, your position is objectively correct, right? Those who disagree are fooling themselves.
You are what you’re bitching about.