(June 15, 2013 at 5:29 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(June 15, 2013 at 4:43 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Really, any person deserves respect? Any person? Men who make women walk behind them deserve "respect"? Men who shoot girls because they want an education deserve "respect". Hitler demanded "respect" too.
Yes Bri. Because those are peoples actions and not who those people are. You act like a fool/ you are a fool... no, you're acting like a fool. (yet still I respect you!)
But what if I say "DON'T CALL ME A FOOL" you are "disrespecting me".
Now, what if I had a majority over you? Considering I would outnumber you, how easily would it be for that majority to pass laws that said you could not call an atheist "a fool".?
Here is the difference. If I think you are being that much of a dick I have a choice. I can respond to you, or block you, or simply ignore you. What I do not have the right to do is make demands.
"Respect" not in the way it should mean, but the way it is abused, merely means "Know your place" and "do not question me" and "do not hurt my feelings".