Quote:
Originally Posted by sheltiedave
Zeke, you need to lose the entitled viewpoint. First, it allows you to behave and feel superior to others. Second, people do not do things because they feel entitled, or not do things because they are not entitled, in the vast majority of cases.
If you want to get down to brass tacks, entitlement can be tagged to the wealthy vs poor, much more so than criminals vs law abiding citizens. Criminal behavior is a conscious decision with no basis in entitlement.
|
EDIT: I could have put the below nicer, it was an intellectual vomit moment merely because I've spent a LONG time looking at this, from multiple angles, using a plethora of techniques, incorporating varied professionals, etc. (It really does distill to this, except for truly divergent cases.)
That's just crap which I have studied for years, based in a variety of mediums, tested in the field.
The vast majority of criminal behavior is precisely based in entitlement documented in all manner of areas including sociology, psychology, profiling, economics, etc.
In general, the non possession of something (could be food, could be as amorphous as respect) combined with the overall belief that it should be possessed leads to a rationalized decision that it can be taken regardless of consequence.
What's that called, again?
Oh, yeah.
Entitlement.
And you know what? I
am superior to those people.
One would hope you are, too?
Michael Brown tried to take Darren Wilson's life because he represented an obstacle blockading what he felt entitled to.
Now, bleeding heart types (and I am not immune) will try to rationalize that what he felt entitled to was a lack of police harassment. That's WEAK, even if accurate, coming from an individual that just committed robbery... What he felt entitled to was a lack of police involvement.
FUCK HIM.
And, if you attack an officer where his life is placed in peril? YOU GET SHOT.
I can't wait for Grand Jury deliberations to clear Wilson and for a Civil Rights trial to fail to materialize.