I'm old enough to be your grandfather, learn what a generation is. I never said all young people don't have respect, just you. Even the young uneducated rednecks around here show a lot of respect. I never said that all cops are nice and polite, but most of them are. I said they are taught to be. (you must have problems with reading, too) There is a bad apple in every barrel, though. If you talk to them like you talk to me, it's no surprise you have problems with them. Nobody is going to put up with your shit for very long, even the cops. If you haven't noticed, I started in this thread being nice to you, even after your insults. Now that I have learned that you are nothing but a bitter little punk I no longer feel the need to conduct myself in a courteous manner. You have a lot to learn about life, but, my guess is you will never learn it.
No, but my grand father is old enough to be your father. Maybe I should have him come on her and belittle you from his pedestal. His age is higher than yours, so with your freemasonesque ideology of numerology being better indicatior of weather a person deserves respect than how they act and what they say, I'd expect you to get right in line. Go ahead and miss the point in your response. You could just as well be the inspiration to this thread as anybody. The difference is, I neither ask or need people to respect me. So you might as well lecture someone else old top.
You must have a faulty memory, too. You are the one who made an issue of my age, not me. Since you aren't one to listen, I doubt that you even know where your grandfather would stand on this issue.
Read up on the Stanley Milgram study if you want to see the horror of the trappings of authority. http://www.experiment-resources.com/stanley-milgram-experiment.html
You have to give respect to get respect. An Amber Lamps just went down my street...I wonder if it was wearing purple tights...
I'm well aware of this and other studies and experiments on authority and power. Question is: would you rather live in a society without authority, no laws, no cops?
"You don't have facts to base that on", isn't a swipe. You're concerns about youth crime are media induced and not indicative of an increase in youth crime. Heres some facts to crunch. http://www.springerlink.com/content/h717u357684w2641/
http://www.kidsandtrauma.org/violentCrime.asp Indicator BEH4.B: Serious violent crime offending rate by youth ages 12–17, 1980–2003 - SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey.
http://youthfacts.org/crime.html Youth crime has dropped slightly adjusted per population since the 60's.
Hm. If the other people around me agreed on certain rules, than yes. Not laws, perhaps. But rules, suggestions, guidelines. I think the whole of society could not function with no structure. Only certain people or on a small scale.