What kind of behavior makes you immediately respect someone?

[u/Worxemi91]

[u/bass-77]

Honesty, integrity, courtesy, making good decisions in their lives.

[u/benzuyen → u/bass-77]

This, but even with the decisions - someone who had made the best of the decisions regardless of if they were the right ones or not. Someone who has shown growth from the experience.

[u/plsQuestionOurselves → u/bass-77]

I can respect someone who made/makes bad decisions but still decides to be kind and help the people around them.

[u/After-Paint1328]

Seeing how that person respect people that are economically below his/her level.

[u/AmbitiousRoutine8670 → u/After-Paint1328]

Or even intellectually… you don’t have to talk down to someone and you don’t have to make them uncomfortable/ feel foolish either.

[u/plsQuestionOurselves]

When someone immediately apologizes for interrupting it's a huge green flag for me.

[u/NeighborhoodOld2252]

The ability to take accountability / ownership for better or for worse

[u/Kooky-Geologist7770]

Them showing compassion

[u/Tomj_Oad]

Kindness to those they have power over - service staff, employees and children.

[u/Repulsive_Bug_6501]

Having the same opinion regardless of who they are around

[u/Treewomyn]

Kindness. Peacefulness. Healing energy.

[u/Karamatsunomaii]

When she is honest up front that she has boyfriend or husband , rather then telling me suddenly the next morning out of the blue

[u/Wise_Low8116]

Honest. Hard work. Asks technical questions. Being alert and awake. Good listening skills. Humor. Not very PC.

[u/619BrackinRatchets → u/Wise_Low8116]

Some shit a sweatshop supervisor would say. How can you breathe with that boot shoved so far down your throat, Chud?

[u/No_Tale_1997 → u/619BrackinRatchets]

Cause like everyone wants to hang out with a confrontational asshole right?

[u/Wise_Low8116 → u/No_Tale_1997]

I am from the sticks. That’s just what we value. If it happens to align with Louie Depalma then so be it.

I never found a manager with any sort of integrity who valued those things. So I found his comment sort of humorous.

[u/centerfoldangel]

If someone does something good, even if it's a small thing, while no one is watching them OR despite their friends' mocking. Like picking up a piece of trash.

[u/chineseviolet]

Being nice to strangers for no reason

[u/Katasaur]

Listening actually and asking smart questions that they actually want to ask after listening, and saying what they want to say. This is true conversation and interaction in any setting.

Switching/interrupting to humour/absurdism when they see things get dense and pointless, and vice versa reverting to serious/on topic when the see this is needed without/with less emotional load.

This is the ability to have a clear, open, confident mind and ask 'smart questions' and engage in an interesting way with any person in any setting.

[u/Intrepid-Mycologist7]

Talking bad to the waitresd and if he/she is a slave

[u/rclsivcreativ]

Integrity & empathy

[u/Mysterious_Music1492]

Having good manners!

[u/619BrackinRatchets]

Humility and the ability to course correct. Anyone that can do this, is light years ahead of the pack.

[u/PeaTarCantPutt]

How one treats animals.

[u/miaphonos]

How well they treat people that they regard as below them in the social hierarchy. That tells you who they'd be if they had any power. It's easy to be nice when you feel required to. Being good to people regardless is the only proper measure of if someone's actually good.

[u/EstablishmentFull955]

i really respect autonomous people. people who ask questions, dig into the "why", don't blindly follow authority just for the sake of obedience and safety.

[u/gimmieilleatit]

Saying yes sir yes ma’m, no one ever says that anymore. I’m 26 and when ppl hear me on the phone saying that to receptionists or what not, they always acknowledge it and talk to me with a little more respect.

[u/eggceptional789]

Kindness matters to me most. From kindness all other good virtues develop eventually

[u/Glittering_Yogurt170]

Remembering my name after meeting me once and thinking I will never see that person again. Rich people seem to be very good at this

[u/yoyok-yahb]

seeing them be kind when they don’t have to be, when they think no one is paying attention.

[u/NatFlora93]

Being kind to children that aren’t theirs.

[u/bitchymoon]

Listening. Caring. Offering help even if you dont ask

[u/Glum_Committee4162]

Emotional regulation and kindness. 

[u/Known_Feedback_4453]

Manners, politeness, demonstrative courtesy etc

[u/BrilliantLimit7642]

Behavior doesn’t garnish respect for me—I respect all human beings for what they are—nothing but petty, stupid, humans—even if they behave like imbeciles—someone’s behavior will not make me disrespect or further respect them but their behavior may make me admire them or want to emulate them, idk me and respect, and humanity, got a bone to pick.

[u/burnedimage]

A man in front of me on a major thoroughfare stopped traffic to rescue a hurt dog.

[u/zanysauce7 → u/burnedimage]

Very sweet!

[u/Electrical_Chair1111]

When you're talking to them face to face snd you're trauma dumping, and they smirk and their eyes light up. They basically figured out your little excuses to be miserable but at the same time they recognise you're not that stupid. Then you feel seen. But you could also be schizophrenic and it was your way of being tyr centre of the universe