Society

RESPECT is never demanded. Its a natural feeling of appreciation/admiration/adoration consciously or unconsciously and part of inherent human behavior.

The Energy of Universe is Constant.
The population is increasing, which means, part of the energy from prior smaller parent population is used for the growth and sustenance of the next generation children population.

I had this question for a long time?

In India, every human respects any human who is elder. Every family expects to respect any one who is elder, relative to ones age.

I used to wonder why ? I mean, why should I respect my father, mother, granny, grandpa, aunts, uncles, teachers etc..?

Just to clarify: How do we respect ?

• We listen to them
• We are extremely humble
• Very loyal
• Take their decision as final in good faith or other wise
• We dont raise voice against theirs and I can add even more.

At least, we are conscious of ignorance and enthusiastic about learning with an attitude of removing the ignorance and understanding the strategies to remove ignorance.

Bottom line: Unless we have the conscious of Good/Bad, Knowledge/Ignorance, the attitude of learning and a desire to move up and forward - we can never understand or gauge the importance of respect.

The more broader goal of a human life is BUILDING CHARACTER - which is the highest goal of any human.

So, back to the question.

There can be many many reasons.
Frankly, there is NO need to respect. If you dont want to, dont need to.

RESPECT is never demanded. Its a natural feeling of appreciation/admiration/adoration consciously or unconsciously and part of inherent human behavior.

As you can see: Appreciation, admiration and adoration are possible only to an individual who knows that there is some thing more to learn and a direction to go than his/her present state.

The answer which convinced me is the following (Scientifically speaking) on my own introspection:

The Energy of Universe is Constant. The Universe, how ever is NOT one, its a mix of innumerable entities like living beings, non living beings etc. Every living being has energy. Lets call it Active Energy which can be exercised (for now). Nonliving has passive energy.

Now the story of population: The population is increasing, which means, part of the energy from prior smaller population is used for the growth and sustenance of the next generation.

Hence the total energy of the next generation will always be less than the prior smaller population and same is the case with the individuals of corresponding generations.

Statistically significant portion of the individuals of older generation can be expected to have more quanta of energy than the individuals of newer generation.

So, it is with the appreciation of this fact that

1. Energy per individual is becoming weaker and weaker that the higher energy individuals would be MORE CORRECT/RIGHT in their activities than the lower energy individuals of the newer generation.
2. The achievements of the older generations May not be achieved hence forth.

these 2 reasons provide me with sufficient energy to think twice before I disrespect elders who ever they are.

Hope that makes sense.
Students/Youngsters of world, especially Indians are forgetting the ethics and values of Indian Culture which is very scientific. Introspection is the first step to acquire Knowledge. Dont kill that habit which has been inherent in Indians for over 2500 years.