The Respect Your Elders Fallacy

The "older is wiser and more experienced" thing is bullshit. I know too many older people who are living evidence that that's not true. The "life experience coming with age" thing would be true if life was exactly the same for everyone, but it isn't. Life is different for everyone and different people grow up under different circumstances. Younger people can have more life experience than older people in cases when the younger person has got problems that are greater than the older person's problems. If you're gonna respect someone, respect them for the person that they are, not because of their age.