In a world where every old person is respected just for being alive and kicking at reaching a specific age, is it mandatory to just bow down and take whatever this person is laying out just because he’s older and therefore more experienced? Let’s say, hypothetically speaking, that you get into a fight with someone who’s older than you are.  It doesn’t matter what the fight was about, although it was more or less something over stupid.  You know that you didn’t do anything wrong yet the other person’s refusing to budge.  Do you apologize or don’t you?  In…