<p>No; ungrateful pieces of crap</p>
<p>respect should be given on an individual basis...</p>
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Um... odd thread. Respect everyone, regardless of how they dress, what music they listen to etc. Also I've never heard of people labelled as emo acting disrespectfully to other people, so what reason is there to even question respecting them or not?
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Our GSA recently circulated petitions that people could sign to show support for gay high school students, especially closeted ones. (Don't ask, I had nothing to do with this, I hate the way GSA is run.) One of the self-proclaimed emos got hold of one of them and was verbally abusing anyone who refused to sign, saying things like "you're a homophobe, you just want all gay people to die if you don't sign this." If that's not disrespect, I don't know what is.</p>
<p>I respect most emo people because I find that they are friendly people. I actually think that it is kind of courageous to make yourself stand out by being emo. However, there are a great deal of emo people that are just sooooo dramatic, and they mope around. I'm just like "suck it up and stop moping!"</p>
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Have you ever been to Africa? Those people are JOYOUS. They are SO thankful for EVERYTHING that they have. They're thankful just to be alive. Trust me, they don't sulk.
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<p>Ever been to India? They sulk.</p>
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I believe it's Skewed Sample, but I'm not sure.
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<p>A biased sample, %&#&$!</p>
<p>Emo as a culture is wrong, in my opinion. It values self-injury and a pessimistic, outwardly negative world outlook, and, let's face it, most emos are unpleasant to be around. (And their music kinda sucks)</p>
<p>No, proletariat2, not biased. Skewed. It's a type of Logical Fallacy. Hold on and lemme see if I can dig up the sheet.</p>
<p>It's actually False Dilemma...my mistake. I can't seem to find the definition for Skewed Sample...maybe i'm just remembering it wrong.</p>
<p>Mmmkay, I got Skewed Sample screwed up with either:</p>
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<li> Hasty Generalization- size of the sample is too small to support the conclusion</li>
<li> Unrepresentative Sample- sample use in an inductive inference is relevantly different fro the population as a whole</li>
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<p>I think they come off as really arrogant and obnoxiously self-absorbed.</p>
<p>So no. I have no respect for them, especially as someone who's been through real depression.</p>
<p>Okay, what most of you who don't "respect" emos are saying is that your lack of respect comes from a disproval of their imitation of depression. First of all, how do you know that these people aren't really depressed? If you don't respect them, I'm guessing you also don't know them very well. Who are you to judge someone you don't even know at all? And don't even say you "know" they aren't really depressed, because honestly, you never know that sort of thing. I was voted happiest of my class last year, which was the same year I became so depressed that I had to enter therapy. My ex-boyfriend was your typical "emo", but everyone who didn't know him thought he was just an attention-seeker, when he really had serious emotional and cutting problems that were beyond what anyone who didn't personally know him could imagine. Is the "faker emo kid" going to have to kill himself before people like you realize he needed help? Even if they are faking, it's not your problem. Their pretending to be something else is really sad, but honestly, it's not like they're stealing food from the poor or health from the sick. Instead of sitting around judging people, why don't you help them? Second of all, just because someone dresses a certain way or listens to a certain type of music does not make them automatically a member of a group. I know quite a few people who appear to be the typical "emo" or "goth", but are happier than anyone would ever imagine than if you were to just look at them from afar. My opinion is, you can't disrespect someone you don't know. Respect has to be earned, yes, but disrespect needs to be earned as well.</p>
<p>my veiw on this thread is simmilar to princessbell's, you guys that dont respect "emo" kids is that you cant take like 5 minuets to get to know someone because of the way they look. that is just stupid in my eyes. i have lots of friends that are "emo" and they are the HAPPIEST people i know. ive had some of the best times in my life with them even better than when ive hung out with any other group of people. and none of the friends i know that are "emo" are drug users. just because you dress "emo" doesnt mean that your depressed or you cut yourself that is just so steryotipical which i think is just as bad as being racist. that is my opinion on this you guys just need to put steryotypes behind you and give everyone a chance in life no matter what they look like.</p>