Published on 12, July, 2020
Why do so many people have a sense of entitlement?
I was discussing this with a friend at the weekend and we couldn't really get to the bottom of it, other than perhaps it's just been a slow erosion of society and work ethic.
They don't work, but are entitled to (net) taxpayers money, so they can have things that taxpayers can't afford, to live in areas that those taxpayers can't afford, to have holidays, to not work a job they don't want to, to be entitled to an easy and well paid job. That they have "rights" that must be treated as gospel, but not any responsibilities that are tied to those rights. That rules are just for "someone else", a whole attitude that everyone else owes them a living etc.
What is the flawed mental process where people decide that they are entitled to things just because they want them? How can anyone even attempt to justify that "want" means "entitled"?
I thought for a moment that the Editor of the Daily Mail had written this piece. Are you sure that there isn't a ghost writer at work?
My dear mother used to read that. I don't know if papers are provided in the home she is in now. The staff are almost all immigrants......
I’m sure Bicycle didn’t mean that nexus9, I’m sure your mother isn’t any of those things.
This is a very emotive subject for a lot of people. Even my poor choice of words, caused a bit of a rumpus. I don’t usually get involved in these kinds of discussions but I remember my sociology teacher using those words. I didn’t realise they were bad words to use. They made it appear that I didn’t have gratitude for all the support I’m getting from the nhs and the benefits system and social services, which couldn’t be further from the truth. So I would say take lightly anything that’s said on a thread discussing such an improve topic.
I don't share most of my fathers political views either and my mum doesn't have any, which to be honest, is more in line with my thinking, so I guess I'm closer to my mum in this respect.
Yes. Often one person in a couple takes their sense of identity from the other. It sounds like your mum has been through quite a lot. I trust she has some level of peace in her heart now.
Blue Ray and Bicycle
I never saw eye to with with my mother on her political views - to say the least. I think before Dad died she derived so much of her sense of status through him, yet she was never able to work again after a drunk reveller ploughed into us whilst we were once on holiday in France.
The Mail's reputation is well-renowned.