This is a funny question, really. In a gang of theives, who earns the greatest respect? The best thief, usually. In an antisocial clumb of motorcycle raiders, it's the biggest Harley with the biggest rider. In the world of ruthless bloodthirsty white-collar leeches, it's the exec who sucks the most financial blood without getting caught. In the world of priestly pederasts it's the Padre with the cutest choirboy. Among folkies it's the fastest fingerpicker or the most mournful singer or the guy with the most obscure repertory. But take that folksinger and put him in the highly competitive world of Singapore gigolos or Hungarian salt-miners, and he would be laughed at.

So the answer is, yes, all my ancestors have been quite respectable.
Just don't ask to whom they seemed that way...

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