As I pointed out several pages back, respect has to be earned; you can't simply stroll in and demand it just because you think you deserve it. Well, you can, of course, but then you leave yourself wide open to the sort of derision you're complaining about.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
