August 28, 2003
Feeling entitled?
Search your own soul.
"This is the Age of Entitlement. I do not mean entitlement only in the sense of the belief that one is entitled to a government handout. I also mean entitlement in the simpler sense of the belief that one deserves to get exactly what one wants - regardless of the law and despite the public good.
Four examples drawn from recent legal controversies illustrate this point. In each, the law made clear what the right thing to do was. But in each, the culprit insisted on doing something else - something they insisted that, illegal or not, they were entitled to do..."
Posted by fightingdem at August 28, 2003 10:52 AM




