You Aren't Entitled to a Thing

A lesson in entitlement my baseball coach taught me 17 years ago...

[CornerTalker]

life, liberty, and the freedom to pursue happiness

[davidrother]

The sense of entitlement in this country is astounding.

[demondbrister]

That's right brother, that's the clear truth! Nothing ever came out of obligation or entitlement, well that makes us better anyway. Thanks for posting.

[finalsnipe]

Unfortunately my wife's father has not realized this. He's 68 and still waiting on a handout that's never going to come.

[joshuaschmidt]

this is so true. i figured that out few years ago myself. great video Brother.

[whitandparkvlogs]

Awesome points. Look forward to seeing more!

[erracht]

I see what you're trying to say, but I don't agree that we are "not entitled to a thing". You're setting up a false dichotomy by which a person is either not entitled to a thing or they run the risk of being a spoiled brat. Human and civil rights, for example, are entitlements. Your country's Bill of Rights, for example, is just that, a bill of RIGHTS, not a bill of privileges. Therefore, you are entitled to everything spelled out in the Bill of Rights, they are your birthright, period. Your coach was right of course, I'm not disagreeing with your basic message that you have to work for things in life. However, there ARE things that are rights and entitlements and we shouldn't go too much in the opposite direction; a position on a baseball team is not the same thing as health care. I don't feel entitled to run a business, or to be given a job I'm not qualified for, or to get a reward for basic decency. But I do feel entitled, for example, to having my human and civil rights respected. I feel entitled to free health care (as a Canadian - here almost-free health care exists and most people feel entitled to it) for the same reason that I feel entitled to free garbage collection or free police, fire and emergency services - it's paid for by taxes (conversely, I don't feel entitled not to be reasonably taxed, so there's a tradeoff there). I don't feel entitled to welfare if I can work, but I do feel entitled to welfare if I'm destitute until I can work. Do you see where I'm going? Maybe we can agree on many points, but I don't agree with the idea that being entitled is always equal to being spoiled or to appropriating rights that you don't have. Everyone should have, within reason and where appropriate, a certain healthy sense of entitlement, without on the other hand expecting that they will not have to work for anything and that life will hand them everything they wish on a silver platter.

[SquidPartyGames]

Americans are one of the least entitled people, give yourselves some credit.