Entitlement in Society...WTF People?

The past few days have done nothing for me but to get really angry with something that I have been seeing getting worse and worse all the time:  the attitude of self entitlement that is rampant in society.

In Toronto, they have started the no tolerance blitz with respect to any vehicle blocking traffic during rush hour, something that John Tory brought in.  Bravo John, I applaud you for this, you are the first person to even try and solve the issue with some common sense.  What do I see this morning, but an article about how a small business that cleans grease traps is going to go out of business because they cannot park where they wanted to to go do their job.  John Tory gave people 1 month's notice to figure out what to do, and has discussed giving them areas.  So rather than actually become proactive and part of the solution, this owner decides to change nothing and fumes about getting tickets and getting towed because he is breaking the law.  Wake up moron, you had 1 month to figure this out, instead you have decided it is more important for you to have your own selfish way and decide to block traffic, holding up commuters and such trying to get to work.  Where do you get off that your time is more valuable than theirs?  Quite clearly this is what you are saying.  How about you try adjusting your work schedule so that you are not doing your work during rush hour?  Hmmm there is a thought you selfish prick.  The only reason this guy is going to go out of business if he does, is because of his entitlement.

In yet another article I saw recently, family is outraged city is removing the boards of their ice rink on their front lawn.  Why you ask?  Cause it's against the law.  They feel because it is for the children that it is OK.  Well is it OK if you cut your neighbors cable off because you put a spike through the wire?  Or damage something else?  Did you call before you spiked?  Did you perhaps check the bylaws?  Probably a big resounding no on all of that.  I mean why bother, you are clearly entitled to do whatever you want, despite laws in place to protect you from your stupidity.

So where is this sense of entitlement coming from?  Well it stems from the fact that we are now seeing children from the generation that had everything.  In schools alone, even now at university level, there are no consequences whatsoever for actions that are wrong.  We are not allowed to fail our children in school, because god forbid they actually have to experience failure.  Failure, is never failure if you learn from it.  But even with late assignments, children are no longer penalized, rather they can hand them in late, create a back log in marking for their teachers, who often do this on their own time.  So your kids time is more valuable than the teachers?  Give  me a break, it is bad enough that the teachers have to parent your kids for you because you are either too damned lazy or too interested in being your kid's best friend.  Parenting for most people clearly has gone south (I will state for the record though, I breath a sigh of relief that I do know parents who parent their children properly and don't allow this sense of entitlement).

But it goes even farther.  Sports is full of it, people telling their children its OK to go to weekend tournaments and miss family outings, or let their grades suffer.  We all know that a kid can be dumb as a stump and still be allowed to play sports in school, cause the school will dump however much money they can to make sure that kid earns that petty little grade they need so they can go chase a ball.  One of the things I applauded at my school was when they had the academic banquet, to celebrate those of us with an A minus average or higher.  The last year I was in high school, I was furious because it was the 25th anniversary of the school, and they had to dump the honor banquet to do it and keep up the sports achievement banquet.  How fucking backwards; we are in school for an education, not to play sports.  It doesn't matter what you tell you kid, chances are they won't make the big time for sports and will have to go get a job.

At the end of the day society is doomed as long as this attitude of entitlement continues.  For everyone that gets away with entitlement, at least one person gets shit on.  The best thing for everyone, is grow up, accept responsibility and the consequences, and stop thinking your number 1, cause when you think you're number one, you're really being a piece of number 2.