Respect I

Respect has got to be earned. Isn't it so? Respect, like love, is only received when it's given out. Interviewed this bleeping idiot of doctor on Wednesday-8 March 2006. He was difficult and a true disgrace to the medical profession. Arrogant just because he's a doctor. CP called him "b*****d". Honestly, I don't respect him even though he's a doctor. He ought to be smacked, wringed and hung up to dry.

Authorities demand respect and to a certain extent, they deserve it unconditionally because of the higher position that they are in. But the rest of the respect that they want to/going to get has got to be earned. The world is your mirror. If you want and deserve respect, give it out. Otherwise, don't blame the world for pointing fingers behind you and dishing out colourful languages after you.

I do not subscribe to corporal punishment as a way of getting respect as a way of getting respect. It is more a way of instilling fear to achieve your ends and another form of terrorism. Think of the Japanese during WWII. People didn't do their bidding because they respected the Japanese. They did it because they were fearful. In fact, because it was not respect but fear that was planted, so too did hatred grow.

I never believed that corporal punishment is a way of commanding respect simply because Dad had NEVER touched a single hair in my entire life. Conversely, Mum has whacked me countless times. It doesn't turn that because Dad's never hit me before, I don't respect him. And I, like those who suffered the yoke of the Japanese rule, DETEST people who demand respect through the rule of fear. I will not take that lying down. I will stand up against them and give them what they deserve: my utmost scorn and hatred.