Things that make you lose respect for the human race....

2. People getting annoyed at elderly people. We will all be there one day, Lord willing that is, so calm down. If you have aches and pains at 35 how do you think that you will feel at 80? Some elderly people tend to talk alot but alot of elderly people are lonely, let them talk for three minutes, the world isn't going to end.

This. I take my 85 year old Grandma shopping about once a month so she can get out and feel like she is doing something. She rides the store scooter and people give her dirty looks and are so rude to her because she is slower. It makes me so mad and I usually end up saying something. If anyone deserves to use that store scooter, it is my 85 year old Grandma who has worked hard her whole life and doesn't get around like she used to.

I love that you take your Grandma out, but so mad that other people are *kitten*! >.<

You know, the things that people do that ANNOY you so much that they leave you in disbelief. Here are my top three...

1. People beeping at a school bus, especially at kindergardeners. You aren't going to be there for ten minutes so calm down and relax.

2. People getting annoyed at elderly people. We will all be there one day, Lord willing that is, so calm down. If you have aches and pains at 35 how do you think that you will feel at 80? Some elderly people tend to talk alot but alot of elderly people are lonely, let them talk for three minutes, the world isn't going to end.

3. People not flushing the toilet in a public restroom. Dude, you're nasty!

#2 for sure, I'm 61 and my mom 85. Young people have no patience for her, she uses a walker or cane. When I was growing up adults taught you to have tons of compassion for older people and offer help whenever you could. I don't see that at all today, and I don't see it in government's compassion. It's made me lose respect for sure, what a sad thing for a society that has more food, shelter and lifestyle than any time in history, to lose it's civilization.

The "entitlement” mentality and the abandonment of personal responsibility.

There are so many answers I could give to this, but I'll just limit it to this:
The Tory Party.
Screw you, David Cameron.

If it helps - I don't think they are actually human.

Semi-intelligent people I used to know who have ditched their academic lives and any hope of a career to sit in their basements and preach the teachings of David Icke.

Too many to write now, will come back

The human race in general..ones that are cruel despicable things that hurt other things etc.

i was raised to be a gentleman at all times so what really annoys me is
1. men who do not hold the door for ladies (especially their own)
2. men who will not get the door for their lady when they are getting in and out the car
3. men who go in the bathroom and urinate all over the urinal (your nasty) if it's that little to where you cannot reach walk up on it!
4. speaking of bathrooms ppl who go in there and splash water all over the sink and not paper towel it up (annoying) then the person behind clothes get wet
5. men who think they are a ladies man and use the bathroom and then walk right out without washing their hands (makes me want to walk out and tell all the ladies he talking too "careful this one has hepatitis"
6. men who say they have to babysit and they are talking about their own children NEWSFLASH it's called parenting try it more often!
ok now for the other list
7. ppl who get in the 20 item or less aisle and they have 40 items and then get an attitude when the cashier tells them they cannot stay in line
8. ppl who blast their radio and they have small children in the front or backseat
9. (one more for men) PULL YOUR FREAKING PANTS UP!

oh i feel better thanks for starting the post

'Losing respect for the human race' isn't a sentence I use lightly.. certainly not with regards to bad animal owners or the way people choose to vote, personality traits or their little quirks.

I have lost a lot of respect for global society recently unfortunately

I lost some when I heard of Yue Yue, the two year old Chinese girl who was run over by a van and left to suffer and bleed in the street as people WALKED ON BY. She was then run over another two times before a street cleaner came to her aid. She later died in hospital.

Then some more when I heard of Jyoti Singh, the 23 year old Indian medical student who was gang raped by five men, so brutally that her insides came out of her rectum, then she was dumped on the street and left for dead, she died two weeks later in hospital due to her horrific injuries.

In my own Country, I lost respect for humanity when I heard of Savita, a beautiful Indian woman living in Ireland who died as a result of doctors in charge of her life looked after her with Religion, rather than medicine.

Every time I turn on the news, I lose respect for us.

#1 - which even I am prone to do at times -- is judging anyone else based on my standards -- I am a member of the human race, as are you, in which you are losing faith. I am a great believer in a philosophy that proposes you: "If you don't like something, do something to change it; and if you can't change it, learn to live with it."

Complaining or "preaching to the choir" has no effect other than stressing yourself and/or irritating others. God (yes, there IS a God) placed us on earth to learn and share, not to teach and expect others to do it our way. If you want to save the world, then start by taking the weather as it comes, and (for passengers) if you don't like the way someone is driving, then YOU get behind the wheel and let him or her ride and enjoy the scenery.