[BenLurkin]

“Should you wait for someone to earn your respect before you respect them?”

If they haven’t earned your respect, then whatever you are showing them isn’t really respect.

“You have one major responsibility: to be part of the positive change in this world.”

Fight Statism. Spread the Gospel.

[Tax-chick]

"Should you wait for someone to earn your respect before you respect them?”

You should treat everyone in the way you would like to be treated, in the absence of an awfully good reason not to. This implies a presumption that the other person is respectable, if you have no evidence otherwise.

[notdownwidems]

“Should you wait for someone to earn your respect before you respect them?”

If they haven’t earned your respect, then whatever you are showing them isn’t really respect

This is a common misconception, confusing courtesy with respect...courtesy is something that should be given to every human being, regardless...respect, however, is something that must be earned.

Once I was arguing with a lib (I know, I know); she told me that everyone deserved respect, because there was at least one good thing about them. So I replied, 'well, Hitler really loved dogs, so I guess he wasn't all bad.'...the mouth-dropped-open look on her face was priceless!