Because were your elders?????

I begin with the simple question who has not heard you should show respect to them because they are your elders? Now I've never been one to follow that logic well for the simple reason of its unjustified, i never agreed with the idea that someone should deserve respect for age for the simple reason that you cant change your age, its as malleable as skin color and I'm sure we all know how idiotic it is as to judge someone by the color of their skin, yet this idea of elders deserving more is just the same, just because they have had more of a chance to have more experiences doesn't mean that they have, or whether they even learned anything from it. Its not just the experiencing of it but the learning from it that makes it valuable. So i think we need to stop giving people these higher levels of respect based on things that are undeserving, when i meet someone or am thinking about someone i look at them without these unfair concepts blinding me from really seeing them in a truthful light and i think more people need to do the same.