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Originally Posted by PARAGON
care to explain? do you not feel any respect for anyone that served in the Armed Forces either?
THEN.......
Respect for the law is not admiration nor adoration. It is acknowledgement thereof and your civil agreement to abide by it.
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Hey man. Look at what you wrote! You ask me if I "feel" any respect, then you call it a behavior. You are right - I'm not necessarily getting what you've been refering to about "respect".
If respect is a feeling - I have admiration and adoration for some, and not for others. Not a big deal, and you are not arguing that.
If respect means to "act legally", then I agree that everyone should do so (presupposing that law is 'good', of course).
But whole tone of offering 'respect' for law officers, military personnel, or whatever has been to the tune of "they deserve more than others based of the risks they take". If respect is simply about obeying the law (as you say), then it's nonsensical to talk about respecting one more than another. You can "obey more" or "act more legally" to someone.