People will respect you more if you drive a nice car, have a house, buy a boat, take vacations, people are going to look at you like "Damn whats he doing, thats what I need to be doing"
People may respect you by killing someone, but the moment you get caught up, you honestly think they are going to still respect you in jail or in a grave? Hell no there going to forget who you are... so you did all that for nothin.