Property rights are a fundamental element for a civilized society.

In the previous three parts of R-E-S-P-E-C-T, I have addressed what I consider the primary foundation for a RESPECTful, peaceful civilized society. I will now be addressing the next level of RESPECT issues that detail how to cement those foundation stones into a lasting strong, successful structure.

Throughout human history one of the elements that held civilizations together was RESPECT for the culture’s elders. This RESPECT was a keystone to even the most primitive cultures all over the world. Historically, it was recognized that the cultural elders had experienced more and that age resulted in wisdom that only living life can provide.

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These Me!, Me! generations seem to think they have some right not to be offended by other people’s speech

In what we call western civilization, those born from the late 1930s onward started a process where the wisdom of the elders began to be disregarded. It seems that those in academia, who have no real life experience in the world, are indoctrinating their students with the idea that the only knowledge needed could be learned from books. From the academic’s viewpoint, they were smarter than the elders who had real knowledge acquired from the school of hard knocks. By the 1960s, high schools and colleges had been thoroughly invaded by liberal progressive instructors (aka communists) who started teaching students what to think rather than how to think. RESPECT for the cultural elders died.

Those of us old enough to remember recognize that the colleges and universities is where the seeds of the anti-war movement sprouted. These seedlings of the 1960s have become mature trees now producing a bitter fruit that is the anti-law and order movement of the 2020s in North America. Sadly, we have gone from anti-war, to anti-law and order, to anti-America, to anti-individual liberty in 60 short years.

In the second and third decades of the 21^st century, there is a total lack of RESPECT for other people by way too many in North America. These Me!, Me! generations seem to think they have some right not to be offended by other people’s speech. In their twisted “thinking process” (and I use that term loosely), these “children” think others must never utter words they find offensive, even to the extent of censorship. 

The brain-numbed snowflakes don’t even realize what they want inflicted on others can also be inflicted on them. That is the price paid by people who expect someone to tell them what to think without knowing how to think.

RESPECT in any civilized society is a two way street

RESPECT in any civilized society is a two way street. These dimwitted products of the modern public schools are missing the importance and value of mutual RESPECT for each other’s human rights. Failure to acknowledge this reality is a pathway to the collapse of any civilized culture.

Building further on the foundational building blocks is RESPECT for other people’s property. Property rights are a fundamental element for a civilized society. Everyone in North America has the right to legally acquire property as they see fit. Everyone else has a duty to RESPECT those property rights. No one has the right to deprive another person of his or her property. Shamefully, in the United States, a lack of RESPECT for property ownership in certain government jurisdictions has been sanctioned. There is no punishment for the thieves, and the property owner is prohibited from protecting his/her property. Failure to RESPECT property rights is a major indication of the collapse of civilization.

"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions." ~ James Madison

"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ...” ~ Thomas Jefferson

"The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens." ~ John Hancock

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