I’m the rep for ‘let’s be honest’ & ‘tact’. Let’s be honest isn’t that bad, tact just a fancy way of saying, I don’t wanna tell you how I really feel; because you meant be offended.

(SKIP TO CONCLUSION- for me if keeping it simple)

Who knows if these girls are fb friends as well as if the act of sufficing a question reciprocated in Leah’s direction may be necessary for the inquiring mind down the road.

I have wanted to challenge so many point since starting to read this then falling asleep and now at five thirty- my time- able to mis-match some working thoughts to get in the game.

As these yearbook signing are not just mean’t for friendships whereas you interact on a daily or even weekly basis one might want to take in these little malnourished, non-convoyant ideas and let them grow within one’s mind or ASK what their significance is.
Questioning is a tough set-back but is better than having an idea of what one’s intentions were when the answer well could possibly be a few clicks away.

One should be savvy enough to compensate their levels of acceptance and respect as not necessarily very guiding. They can both be contradicted with actions… Unless some of the people in this world have a great simplistic (for the detainee of your examination) ways of showing how much each one of their moves have up’ed or down’ed your ante of acceptance/ respect.

Conclusion:

Try not to pass judgement too quickly.

Thanks.

I honestly don’t see why you have a problem with an African-American expecting that his respect should be earned. I really don’t, as I’ve spent a lifetime earning the respect of others. I don’t see why mine should be given away willy-nilly.

I was not playing word games with you. At first I thought you were kidding about people having to “earn” your respect, but your subsequent comments showed me that you were indeed serious.

The only reason I even engaged in this conversation was to find out the rationale for how an African American – who in past comments described terrible injustices he experienced on a bus – would even think that someone has to “earn” his respect.

I guess that you honestly don’t see that you didn’t “earn” or deserve the shoddy treatment that bus driver gave you and your siblings. Or that if that bus driver had a modicum of respect for people – instead of expecting that they should “earn” his respect, you would have traveled without incident.

Anyhow, I think it’s pretty obvious by now that I agree with OG. I really do not want this to turn into a shit storm in the comments, so I will not comment further on the subject.

OG, no, no negative connotation there. I can accept an argument whilst seeing holes in it which make it an invalid point to my mind, thereby allowing me to not respect said argument. There’s nothing negative about not agreeing with you. Just a simple difference of opinion. Sometimes there is no right or wrong, just differing opinions.

When a parent takes into account that their infant has preferences for a certain toy or playtime game or whatever, they do buy them that toy or engage in the activity that the kid likes because they respect’s the kid’s preferences. If they didn’t they’d pay no attention to what the kid actually likes.

And while you personally may care for a child because you feel “obligated”, want to earn karma points or don’t want CPS after you, that’s not necessarily the case for other people.