Loss Of Respect, Please vote. Options

[*Programmer*]

When someone does something just plain dumb/stupid do you tend to lose respect for them?

This includes Friends and relatives

Please feel free to explain what happened and what amount of respect was lost for the person. And the reason behind it.

Be Honest!

[*Elba*]

Hey Rico,

Why don't you explain the comment you left me the other day... who did you lose respect for and why?

[*Elba*]

I love how Rico never replied to his own topic

[*Michelle*]

When people do stupid things over and over again, it kind of shows a side or piece of their personality. Because of that, I do tend to lose respect when I find that flaw.

[technicolour]

Nah. Unless it was something REALLY REALLY stupid.

[*Moderator*]

It depends. If its just once then I'll just let it slide, I mean, people make mistakes. But if it becomes a habit, then thats no good and I certainly lose respect for them.

[queen]

a lose respect for a lot of people.

...but i'd still be respecful towards them.

[lovescream]

If they do something so f**king stupid that it basically f**ks up their life just that bad, then yes. If it's something stupid, but reversible over time, not as much, because I'd eventually forget.

[*Sandraaa*]

Nobody has ever done anything that bad to lose my respect except my dad but he didn't have my respect to begin with.

[ClaudelGFX]

I have no respect for liars.

[freeflow]

Throughout my life I have been losing more and more respect for my dad. But yeah, that's all I have to say about that.

Same.

But yes I lose respect for people when they do stupid stuff, or just make too many bad decisions in general.

[*Steven*]

I have little to no respect for liars/cheaters/physically violent people

[*Uronacid*]

I don't respect people who don't respect themselves. I believe that if you want someone to respect you. You have to show them that you're worthy of their respect. Not by bending to everyone's each and every whim, but by show others that you won't let them disrespect you. Set boundaries that don't allow them to use you. Know when to say, "no", and when to say, "yes".

I don't respect who take the internet to seriously. It's not even that I disrespect them. It's that they feel like I'm disrespecting them. If they only had a sense of humor they could joke around with me and have fun.

I also hate pedophiles and people who rape. Yeah, I know I joke around about it (you shouldn't make any subject taboo), but in all reality I f**king hate rapists. My mother was molested as a child, and so were a few other people that are close heart. Thank God I wasn't. If I saw anyone physically disrespect a child (even my own friends) I would probably try to kill them. Just thinking about this in a serious mode makes me feel tense. It makes my heart ache, and at the same time my blood boils with anger.

[*Sandraaa*]

In reality I also hate pedophiles. Yeah, I know I joke around about it (you shouldn't make any subject taboo), but in all reality I f**king hate pedophiles. My mother was molested as a child, and so were a few other people that are close heart. If I saw anyone physically disrespect a child (even my own friends) I would probably try to kill them.

Aaagh, especially pedophiles who've 'changed' and come open on national TV. You're still a pedophile, nothing will ever change that!

[*Uronacid*]

Aaagh, especially pedophiles who've 'changed' and come open on national TV. You're still a pedophile, nothing will ever change that!

f**k them... I can't forgive people who do that. No matter how hard I try. having fun and joking around about things like that is one thing, but nothing is funny about the reality of that subject.

[xFaith]

Yes, definately.
Especially when I don't know the person well =)

[Crash2]

Only if the action is so stupid that it'll mess up their life or it ends up with a loss of trust between people. I can forgive little things because people make mistakes, but as other people have said, if it becomes a habit it becomes harder to forgive each time.

Sometimes it makes you look at that person differently too.

[DarkImpressions]

Woww your avatar is.. Umm I dont know.
Yea one of my cousins,She says really rude things sometimes its like not even funyyy.
I mean over time you get sick of people talking trash to you.

[Flaunted]

if they keep doing that mistake after being confronted of it, yes.
Because then they know they're doing it purposely and not changing it because they're stubborn or "thats the way they are"

for example, my uncle (who is younger than my father) and my father got into this big family argument/ drama shit. He say's that since he married my mother (who is younger than my uncle) should treat him more respect. And that is why MY FATHER should be asking my uncle to visit him or give his get well wishes after my father's surgery.
it's like a stupid childish, immature argument and everyone knows that my uncle is just being a huge ass because, it doesn't make sense that someone should ASK for someone to come over and ask how my dad is doing.

I definitely lost a lot of respect for him because he's being this little dumbf**k that won't even say "get well" face to face to someone in his family.

Also there are a lot of my friends who did A LOT of stupid things while they drink or get high, I lose respect for them too but they are my friends and i love them so I can't say i hate them after they do some stupid mistakes.

[EmoEyelinerx]

Over the past year I have been losing respect for my friend. She broke me and my boyfriend (now ex) up (we were dating for a month), and just laughs about it. She tells secrets, she just does everything wrong >_>

[Jeng]

yo linda stop being a pimpho.

i have respect who i know who do stuff idk but i know them and i will know them if they am i are respect them and stuff idk i respect people who do things good what idk what im typing

[1angel3]

I don't, people are human and people make mistakes.

[HakunaMatata]

Unless it's something that srsly changes their life, then no. It has to be something really big to have a noticable dip in respect.

On the flip side, basically anything positive will raise my respect for them, big or small.

[monxcheri]

if it was something that changed their life drastically in a negative way, then yes, i would lose respect for them.

[*stephinika*]

It depends on the individual situation of course. But yeah, its happened to me. Found out a girl cheated on her boyfriend at least 4 times, and yet they're still together just because they have been together so long and are afraid of losing the relationship...yeah, that kinda changed my mind on some things about them. Not so drastically I hated them or anything, but yeah. It happens.

[no-name]

It doesn't take much for me to lose respect for people. It can be something as simple as a little white lie. I will be respectful towards them though(well it depends).

[*Programmer*]

Very interesting theory's on how you lose respect for people. Please enlighten me further i wish to hear from everyone.

[xcorphz]

I always pay respect to other people
but if I'm being insulted or confronted and I feel like it really hurts and I can't take it! I retort directly.

[breakingdawn]

I lost pretty much all my respect for my brother. I'd always held him with such high regards and we were always great friends, but then I found out what he was hanging around with the wrong crowds and that he was getting into drugs and stuff, and that really caused me to lose a lot of respect for him.

And I also find it hard to respect people who have no respect for themselves.

[*IVIike*]

not usually, but occasionally i will if they have repeatedly done something stupid

[*superstitious*]

I have no respect for liars.

That and those who manipulate, backstab and think the world owes them a favor. It doesn't.

I have no respect for people with no regard to those with disabilities. "Friends" of mine completely stopped talking to me when they found out my kid was diagnosed with autism. That's just, unforgivable, let alone the respect I lost for them.

[*Insurmountable*]

^o_O wow that's horrible that people actually do things like that. I mean I can believe it but just ugh I can't have any respect for people like that either.



Although to the topic..do I lose respect for people who do dumb/stupid things? No not really, although of course it just matters on the situation at hand. The only person I can really think of that would fall under this would be my Mother. I've lost so much respect for her over the years and theres no way she could possibly gain it back at the rate its going.

[JustAnotherTeena...]

My mom, when she left the family willing to love and forgive her, for my step-father. The man that constantly lied to her and hurt her and terribly abused me. Then years later, once he became too abusive towards me and the tension between us really disturbed the household- finally too much for her to ignore...I got shipped off to live with my grandparents, an hour away. She chose him over me, her daughter. I see and talk to her a just couple times a year now. Not only that, but she stayed in the relationship with someone who had no respect for her even when her family offered plenty of chances for her to leave, to be forgiven and loved. But no, she wanted a man, any man, more than she wanted that. You might say I've lost quite a bit of respect for my "mother".