that elders do not deserve more respect?
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Being a bit tough on you, aren't they?  I'm reading this question as this is not necessrily YOUR personal opinion, but the stance you have to take in a school exercise.  I would focus on the word "MORE" and the question of equality.  You can take the approach no-one denies they are due respect, but are they due MORE respect?\n\nLet's see what we can come up with.  \n\n1. Technology and civilisation generally changes so rapidly that elders knowledge and experience becomes irrelevant/obsolete quickly, so they are not entitled to more respect due to experience.\n\n2.  In an equal society no specific group deserves MORE respect than any other - all groups within society should be accorded equal respect: black, white, old, young, male, female.\n\n3.  While elders can be a wonderful source of life experience and we can learn a great deal from them, this does not in and of itself earn them MORE respect than any other group in society (refer point 2 above).\n\n4.  Elders can become a burden on society due to increased health and welfare costs, therefore provding these services is enough, they don't need a disproportionate amount of respect as well.\n\nThat should be enough to get you going.\n\nOh, and I am an "elder", before anyone jumps on me for being disrespectful!
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Because you too, will pass this way, and you will expect some one to help you when your time comes ....\n\nHelping those now, will show the younger generation that they are supposed to be respectful of thier elders, and help them in anyway that they can.\n\nUnless your going to start killing them off, like you do the infants in abortion mills..???\n\nI wish you well..\n\nJesse
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Hi muAn, \n\nI used to have the same idea as you that Americans/Europeans do not care about their elders but that's just a generalization. I realized that we cannot just look at them as a whole but we need to look at them as individuals. We must also respect them as we respect our elders. \n\ntake care =)
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I completely agree.  I'm tired of quitely smoldering at people that don't even have any respect for others.  Those people are just pathetic losers.  They really need to get a life.\n\nI hate being harsh, but these people that don't have any respect deserve it.
1059017
Some people don't have any respect for other's piece of mind, period. A well-behaved child is such a rarity these days. Polite society is becoming extinct.
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They don't always deserve them, but it's their responsibility to remove them from power when needed.  Leaders should serve the people, not vice versa.
420067
Hang out with other people.  If they don't respect you, they don't deserve YOUR respect.
1083522
Are they being disrespectful openly?  No
533014
In a group setting ladies is not offensive.  Being called "The Old Lady" is.  It is a matter of showing respect, something there is precious little of these days.
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Great question, Yes the younger genreration is going down the/......, I am in the middle east and here there is no respect what so ever an man could get either from, kids or elders , the expats are treated as dirt, especially to thoese who  come from the Sub continent, or Africa
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No, you're not getting old.  They need slapped across their smart little faces.  Know how I know?  I was the same way, and I attribute it to little or no discipline  :-)
406122
NOT MATTER WHAT TREAT THEM WITH RESPECT!
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Honestly, do you really care if people respect you?  Most loner/rebels don't care what people think.  Don't feel bad about not getting any respect for being decent, most of the decent people I know aren't respected at all.
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As what you had said, "Some are and some are not."\nAs diverse as the whole universe is, so are people's principles in life. We are entitled to have our own belief in life. The thing is, there are times we couldn't help to be tactless or disrespectful while others tried to save not only themselves but the world.\n\nOlder people born from generations where there was scarcity of job or modern technology. But I don't agree with you that most older people are the ones that are biased. I do believe that the older you are, the more wisdom you learned and to share. Older people have more good moral and right conduct than the current generations where as young as 6 years old, kids don't respect their parents and it saddens me to see it. I remember when I was young, I couldn't do it to my parents or I'll be penalized or suffer the consequences and you know what, it helps me to be a better person than them letting me go astray.
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they should go to jail. and yes it bothers me when people are rude to them. i love old people some of them are so funny.
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nah...\n\nPeople have been complaining that the current generation is worse than the past ones literally since Aristotle. Times changes, as do attitudes and fads. Sometimes the old folks (and that would probaby include me at 44) sometimes don't keep up with it and have a lot of nostalgia for what they *think* was there youth.
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lack of respect for others