What is your view on respect?

[Veneda]

Basic politeness and respect for humans is a must. All above this depends on how interaction proceeds. I have no problem to respect people for their different opinions. Actually it is advantage to me, because it helps me to perceive the issue from the different point of view. So it grows, providing that opinion exchange undergoes with mutual respect.

[Leo Iscariot]

I feel all humans have an intrinsic value and therefore because they are of worth they are worthy of respect.

My default is to respect all people outright, they have to do/say something that displays disrespect to others/myself for me to no longer give it to him.

Agreed.

[GrebluBro]

All humans by Default deserve respect
Actions determine whether more respect or disrespect.

[Oneeye]

How do you guys define respect? And what examples can you give of yourselves being respectful towards another?

[de Burgh II]

Respect in its own way is something that you have to earn in order be deemed "worthy" of such a thing. I go by the philosophy " I only give people what they have coming to them." Meaning that if a person is giving you respect, then, I'll be more than happy to give it back. If a person give you disrespect; by all means, give disrespect back. Simple as that.

[Caismeachd]

You need to brutally put people in their place to earn it because the most undeserving of it want it/pretend to have it the most.

[portusaus]

I personally hate that word. It is so vague and relative. What does respect actually mean? That word is empty, overused on anything and everywhere which as a consequence devalued its meaning.

Agreed. Respect is a social construct that doesn't mean anything outside of the perspective of the individual.

People become infuriated over a lack of something meaningless.

[rhiannon]

I feel all humans have an intrinsic value and therefore because they are of worth they are worthy of respect.
My default is to respect all people outright, they have to do/say something that displays disrespect to others/myself for me to no longer give it to him.

No, no one does. Respect has to be earned.
What everything deserves, including humans is civility and kindness.

Both of these.

However, we can leave out Child killers, serial killers, murdering POSs in general, child rapists, pedophiles, and other violent filth whose goal in life seems to be destroying the lives of innocents.

[Aldaris]

My definition of dignity (although a bit simplified) is basically ‘amount of respect´ you get from others as an individual aswell as the ‘amount of respect´, which the social groups you are part of get. The simplification is that one can engage in a behavior I’d mark as indignified while not being disrespected by anyone for that, so the two terms aren’t completely synonymous in my view. Traditional definitions often include some kind of moral or just behavior, but I do not include these, for such definitions lump together things that are pretty much unconnected under one label. To finally answer the question, no, people aren’t all born with the same invariant, positive ‘amount of respect’ and then everything is up to them, for at the moment when you are born, you are inevitably assigned with ascribed social characteristics. A rather extreme example, but people will not respect a daughter of a poor Thai whore in the same way they would respect a son of a wealthy Portuguese nobleman.

[Celestia]

I believe that every decent and morally good human being deserves a basic level of respect.