What is ROP, and why is it so sadistic, cruel and brutal?
ROP means "Respecter Of Persons" and it results from a false sense of "security" among an insecure, immature, arrogant populace, polarized into many opposing factions.
Fighting fools, enemy combatants in a life-or-death struggle for supremacy, divided into rival gangs, will eventually destroy every camp in the end.
ROP enthusiasts often subdivide into smaller cliques within each camp, themselves equally at odds with others, in a strange and almost symbiotic -- but self-destructive -- relationship of competing, prejudicial, often suspicious, combative, struggling, insecure and usually infantile adherents.
Nowhere, perhaps, is ROP more prevalent than in the groups we know today as law enforcement and criminal offenders.
And the ultimate breeding ground of ROP is the prison and jail system of each state, where these two polar camps often clash, and rarely coincide in any mutually beneficial, positive, uplifting or socially redeeming purpose.
And there is much blame on both sides for this sorry, deplorable and pathetically sad state of affairs.
A ROPer, therefore, is anyone who orchestrates, organizes, or otherwise performs -- or attempts to operate in the guise or capacity of a Respecter Of Persons.
What, exactly, is a respecter of persons?
At the heart and core of all ROP practitioners is a DISrespect of ALL persons who do not fit into the narrow, biased, prejudicial and myopic clique-mentality of the ROPer.
To such a person, respect is mainly a one-way street that goes only toward them and their buddies in grime, dirt, slander and other forms of accusation, suspicion, and hypocritical, judgmental hypocrisy.
Everyone they disrespect -- they seem to feel -- owes them all the respect in the world, even though they often treat those same people contemptuously, disdainfully, disrespectfully and prejudicially.
This, and most other forms of hypocrisy, are standard operating conduct for those who practice ROP on a daily basis.
They believe everything important is theirs, even if it belongs to somebody else; including property, time, privacy, food, attention, sleep, quiet time for reflection, prayer, or just to organize one's thoughts unmolested.
A ROPer's favorite pastime -- because they often intrude and trespass so far and often on other people's rights, until they are finally rebuffed, confronted or in some other way corrected -- is reacting with extreme hostility, suggesting their victim do what they ought to do themselves (such as: "Shut up!" or "Don't say another word to me!"), and to threaten violent physical confrontation if their unreasonable demands are not met instantly, or to their insatiable satisfaction.
In fact, despite such ROPers manipulative attempts to intimidate, bully and threaten, they are themselves the least likely to let a matter drop, be silent, or leave the other person alone and unmolested, emotionally if not physically.
Why ROP Is So Dangerous
Insolence, arrogance, and an almost total lack of humility are trademarks of all true ROPers.
Often nonstop talkers, or if they've nothing to say at the moment, unwilling or incapable of hearing what others have to say -- unless something they personally want to hear -- such master hypocrites cannot stand even the slightest hint they might, could be, or are ever in the wrong.
The growing number of gang-affiliated men and women, in and outside the inner cities, where their influence is mainly felt, are prime examples of ROP at work.
Each gang, with their own distinct rules of conduct, often interpreted differently, regionally, from that of the founders or would-be leaders, promote themselves through paranoid, schismatic, egotistical and violent power struggles.
Demanding loyalty, "brotherhood" and "respect," gang members are often most guilty of disloyalty, disrespect, disunity, disharmony and disrespect to all not affiliated with "their side."
ROP is the very antithesis of peace.