Respect My Authoritaii!

i never broke a law, but that doesn't mean i'm a goody-two-shoes...

People should be self-governing.

Dude, you're on a bit of a South Park trip right now aren't you? xD

Yeah, I tend to respect the authoritaii. But I still litter. All the time.

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

I don't respect them just because they've got authority, I respect them if they've earned it.

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My thoughts exactly

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

I don't respect them just because they've got authority, I respect them if they've earned it.

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

I don't respect them just because they've got authority, I respect them if they've earned it.

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Right.

Automatically disrespecting authority is every bit as stupid an idiotic as automatically respecting anyone in power.

"I hate authority! I'm a rebel!"

>_<

I don't respect authorities, my respect has to be earned.

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

I don't respect them just because they've got authority, I respect them if they've earned it.

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I've got your back, Psy! :jess:

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Originally Posted by Jess

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

I don't respect them just because they've got authority, I respect them if they've earned it.

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I've got your back, Psy! :jess:

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He is only saying that now cause he is a big scary Cid's Knight :mad:

I don't trust anyone with more power than I have. Also, my respect is earned, not given, and I happen to have rather high standards.

I follow laws that benefit society, but ones I disagree with strongly I have no trouble breaking.

My Canadian Government and Police tend to usually make good decisions, and when they don't it's acceptable, so yes, I respect those authorities. I don't necessarily repsect school authorities completely, but I don't go out of my way to misbehave at school either.

However, one thing I completely frown upon is our increasingly commercialized lifestyle and the American media. Each year we become a little more desensitized to violence and poor ethics due to TV and movies. Each year we fall more and more into a negative thought cycle due to the endless supply of bad news. Each year another disaster fills the media like the tsunami in Indonesia while millions of people die in Africa each year and it gets no coverage due to not being sensational enough. And each year the marketing machine finds more ways to fill our lives with advertising so we can waste more money. Trends and fads pass, and there is only an illusion of choice, since rich little bastards in their offices find a new way to target an age group for a new trend. We continue to kill animals and wreck the enviroment with pollution. So I don't repsect the media or how our lifestyle continues to fall into commercialization. If there was a way to rebel against the media in any other way than I already use, I would, but I also have to conform to some of the very issues that continue to degrade our lives.

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Originally Posted by Zeldy

Like teachers?
I don't give my parent's the respect I should, I know I should, but I just can't help being cheeky sometimes. My Dad said something like "And you wonder why you won't get a rise" and I just HAD to say "Because your tight" Parent's don't like it when you say that :(

I give some teacher's respect, others take it for advantage by making you fear them. Our year has the worst head of year possibly, he's banned almost everything.

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lol you said cheeky! That's the funniest word I have ever heard! I think I'll start using it fom now on!:chuckle: :laugh: :tongue:

Anyway, I have very little respect for U.S government. They aren't very smart.

I have to respect it here or I will be tossed into jail or deported. ;__;
But sshhh ... you didn't hear that from me! x:

The police? Yes, definitely. So long as they are doing their job to their job description then they have a lot of my respect.

The government? I don't really care. I respect that they have to make some pretty awful decisions though, and managing a country is no simple thing to do.

The army? I respect that they follow the orders of their superiors and they give their lives for their country.

The authorities on websites etc? Of course, it's a private organisation and so long as I abide by their rules then I should never have a problem with any of them.

Parents? I think I respected my parents when they had authority over myself, which they no longer do.

My boss? Yes, because we get along well.

I respect people by default, and they can only lose that respect. If a policeman is corrupt, if a soldier abuses his position, if the government breaks their own laws, if a moderator abuses his power, if parents don't treat their children as they should or if a boss is unfair to you, then they'll lose respect.

But without going down to personal issues with certain individuals such as those corrupted people, on a whole, yes, I do respect authority.

i'm not a good guy...

because i believe that rules are made to be broken...

for example, before this in malaysia, the authorities planned to impose curfew to underage citizens...

which means that youth under 18 are limited to the confines of their homes an hour before midnight...

and this is cruel...