I think some people mix up respect with courtesy, and do so to justify being assholes to complete strangers.
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It's kind of been discussed but there are different kinds of respect, there's the admiration kind and the basic human kindness kind, I'm mostly talking about the latter.

I haven't read through the responses, so not sure if someone has mentioned this or not, but I think you're confusing respectfulness/politeness with respect.
There is a HUGE difference.
Everyone should be afforded politeness and respectfulness (until they show in some way they do not deserve it).
Not everyone is deserving of respect (/admiration).
If you go around showering respect on everyone, then who really is deserving of the respect you give?
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A bit of both?

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth"

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Oh yes, if you know how to use them.

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth"

I do have several semi auto rifles and handguns, does that count?
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I don't have all that sweet gear but I do have several semi auto rifles and handguns, does that count?

One thing is common courtesy. The rest is a myth invented to make some animals more equal than others. I do respect people with arms like this
http://c8.alamy.com/comp/A9N7BK/gsg-9-of-the-german-federal-police-during-training-A9N7BK.jpg
though.

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In the "treat with general regard and consideration" sense, yes.

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Unless given a reason not to, yes.

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"to hold regard or consideration for.'

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I agree, during one of my internships I said I would go get all the water jugs. They responded saying "we can't have the intern do that, we don't treat them that way." I laughed and decided I couldn't work there. I'm sorry, internships are the pledges of the work world. I should have been stapling papers and carrying water jugs. Instead I just sat at a desk and got paid.

I wasn't think exclusively or even primarily of the work world, but yes you are right.
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I think as a lower worker you have to earn respect, but as a boss you have to lose respect. If you come in as the new guy and expect to be respected that is a joke (coming from a new guy). You gotta work and earn it. Your boss has the respect when you walk in, but can lose it.

You are right.
Respect isn't something that has to be earned.
It's something that has to be lost.
(I'll refrain from naming names, despot.)
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