whatever happened to being responsible for our own actions?
(not to say that there aren't victims out there, but, too many play that card)
2007-10-02 07:26:35 · 7 answers · asked by bilko_ca 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
That's funny you should ask. A co-worker and I were blaming Dr. Spock [the one that put it into parent's heads that they shouldn't spank their children, because it'll hurt their puppy feelings].
Please, please don't get me wrong. I am totally against child abuse, or any type of abuse for that matter, but [come on] a little swat on the bottom, or just a little humliation as a child isn't going to hurt anyone! After all, who, as an adult, has not been humilitated at work, by a boss, or a co-worker? Does your boss care about your "puppy feelings" when he's firing you????? Nope.
So many people today are afflicted with [I call it] "entitlement-itis". I'm entitled to sit on my duff all day and receive a free check every month, along with food and rent, because there are people out there that work their jobs and pay their taxes, making this all happen for me, along with a government that will give it to me.
Do you realize how much the government would save if a group of people were hired...say, lets start off in one community, and all these "hirees" would do would be to research fraudulent claims. To locate the able-bodied people that receive assistance, but their disability doesn't affect their ability to hang at a bar all day, or take a ride to the amusement park, or give piggy back rides to the kids, or down at the gym working out, or runnin' some kind of meth lab...
I agree that there are definitely people on assistance that need to be, or have worked their entire lives and are entitled to assistance. Those people, however, are the ones that have the hardest time receiving the assistance, for the fact that it's all used up by those that don't.
2007-10-02 08:23:03 · answer #1 · answered by dark eyes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh that is easy to explain. It all started back in the 90's when schools started to give awards tp underachievers in a missguided attemped to make all school kids feel good and stop singeling out the "Good Students" because that would hurt the other students feelings. Now we have created a generation of adults that feel they are entitled to evrything and don't want to work for it. Oh and god forbid they don't get it, the world is against them! I say it time to start spanking the parents not the kids!
2007-10-02 07:31:53 · answer #2 · answered by jstjen71 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Call me politically incorrect-Maybe when we decided we owed the Indians and the "slaves" a future and decided to pay them for the past-The bible said something about give a man a fish and he will feed today-teach him to fish and he will be hunger free forever! Huge mistake to give the money and not the lessons! Now it spills to all levels of our society. Welcome the victims and now there is a whole generation who expect to be given. How will we resolve that issue is a tougher question. EH?
2007-10-02 07:31:44 · answer #3 · answered by helprhome 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I agree that too many play the "Victim" card, but I also think that too many people are able to simply look away and say that it was "their fault".
2007-10-02 07:29:07 · answer #4 · answered by Elana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the liberals began taking over the school system in the 1960's, and "political correctness" has been taught. Sure don't want to scar anyone, hurt their feelings.
2007-10-02 07:30:31 · answer #5 · answered by WooleyBooley again 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1. insecurity
2. money
Just my guess. But sometimes some people are really putting others down and then say it was just a joke.
2007-10-02 07:29:38 · answer #6 · answered by ohioan_femme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
awareness of people's rights is rather new since 1960. I think it is correct.
2007-10-02 07:29:51 · answer #7 · answered by Nora 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋