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| Topic | I've never understood the saying "respect your elders". |
| Zeus 09/12/17 5:01:37 PM #7: | Dreaming_King posted... Why would I respect someone just for having been sucking in air longer than I have? Because they've been accumulating knowledge longer than you have. Dreaming_King posted... There are people half my age who know more than I do in certain subjects, I half expect most people half your age know more than you do when it comes to a good number of subjects =p Otherwise, that's specific knowledge vs overall knowledge. The longer somebody has been alive, generally the greater their overall knowledge is because they've seen far more. As such, a person knows more at 60 than they knew at 50 than they knew at 40 than they knew at 30 than they knew at 20 than they knew at 10. That doesn't mean that they're an expert on every subject, but their overall understanding has generally improved with age and therefore a person of equal circumstance will have a greater overall knowledge at later ages. MICHALECOLE posted... Think about how much smarter and more experienced you are than you were at this time last year This, plus it's also a matter of paying it forward. There's an incentive to treat the elderly well because sooner or later most of us will be elderly and reliant on others. --- (\/)(\/)|-| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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