Does everyone want to be respected?

I prefer to be feared.

Yes. The ones that say “I don’t care what others think of me” are lying.
Everyone wants to be respected and given appropriate treatment they think they deserve.

You are failing, @Rarebear. I respect you too much to fear you. Plus, you took a oth.

What is an oth?

Rhymes with “Oaf.” It’s what doctor’s take. You know, “First do no harm except to Dutchess_III.”

Nope. Not everyone wants to be respected @Sneki95 .

The only opinions I care about belong to about 5–10 people. Why do I care if someone I don’t like, or someone I will never see again, or have no respect for, respects me? Personally, I like being underestimated. No one expects much of me and I get to laugh at all the people who think they are respectable or deserve respect. Pssh.

Most people are not respectable.

I respect everybody until they do something that makes them lose my respect.

@Rarebear Is that the Hypocrisy_Central Oth?

Wait, weren’t the Oth those aliens from that place in that book?

@janbb HC actually had my respect but he lost it recently with the bullying thread.

But @tinyfaery “opinions” and “respect” can be two different things. I mean, some people are of the opinion that just quietly backing down is not to be respected. The only thing to be respected are those who just mindlessly wade into battle at every imagined slight.

I guess we need to define “respect.”

HC lost mine a while ago, when I realized what his actual views about women are.

I do. I want to be respected at work, which means being treated kindly and not talked down to. I want to be respected at home, when I talk to my family and neighbors, we’re all nice and respectful to each other. I want to be respected on the internet, and for the most part, I try to be considerate of others and I appreciate the same in return.

I really don’t get people getting into big arguments about religion or politics on the internet. Life is way too short to argue with people, the majority whom we will never meet. I see people unfriending each other all over FB when they discuss Hillary and Trump and Bernie and other politicians and parties. To me, it’s just way too much stress and strife that doesn’t have to be.

In life, we don’t all always agree on everything, but we don’t have to be nasty about it.

Didn’t really mean to make this a referendum on HC, I was just having fun with the similarity to Hippocratic Oath.

Oth.

Oth

I do not want respect. I demand obedience.

Nope. Don’t care if someone inconsequential doesn’t respect me, but I have a biting tongue and people rarely bother me.

I’m polite even if I couldn’t care less if someone respects me.

Oth!

Respected, listened to, appreciated, considered as viable in their thought processes.

Respect is irrelevant to me in most cases.

Wait, we already had a zeroth thread last month. I have little respect for rethreads.

Funnily enough, I expect respect. I respect people in public places, for example, I expect the same back.

Here, people often shout things at other people, like ‘Hey fat bitch’, or ‘Hello baldy’ to a woman who lost her hair through cancer. I find that disrespectul. It’s possibly also a sign of lack of self-respect.

If I were not respected perhaps a waiter would throw my ordered lunch in my face, the shop assistant would ignore me, and my local doctor would leave me waiting in the waiting room for hours.
If you mean, would I like to be admired, or to impress other people, I’d say no. Those I reserve for myself as I decide whether I am admirable or not.

R…E…S…P…E…C…T
Find out what it means to me
R…E…S…P…E…C…T
Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me…

Err, yeah, keep my sock draw tidy & you earn my respect…this one’s for you Carstairs.

Wanting to be respected is healthy and natural. Not caring if you are respected or not comes close to being psychopathic.

Self re-cocking-spect…brim full of asha

Hmmm. I don’t know. I just rather not be disrespected but I don’t think that is the same as being respected. For example. When I go to the store and ask for help in finding something and the person acts like they don’t want to be bothered. I could care less what they think of me but it’s their job to help me. I find that kind of attitude disrespectful. I don’t need their respect however for my self esteem. But they need my business to keep their job going and if I report them to their manager they could very well lose their job if this isn’t the only bad report.
I don’t demand respect but I do demand not being disrespected by being disregarded. If I have not done anything to get a persons disrespect than that bothers me. You don’t have to respect me but one should be polite to others until they have been given a reason for their disdain.
I really don’t care what people think of me on the inside. It’s their rude actions that can cause me pause. There is no reason for a stranger to have respect for me, but none for them to disdain either. At least not until I give them reason too.
When I meet people, I try to always be polite, but it doesn’t mean I respect them. Just means I will be polite until they give me reason not to be. Respect is something that must and should be earned.

Being respected doesn’t=people can walk all over you. I mean, I respect Michelle Obama like no other woman I’ve known, but lord, I’d hate to do something to piss her off!

I don’t demand respect either. I mean, that’s like “demanding love.” You just can’t.