Monday, July 20, 2015

[wyzscbcr] Respect and entitlement

One side believes someone deserves something, so frames their argument in terms of "respect"; being deprived of the something constitutes a deprivation of a basic human right, of dignity.

The other side believes someone does not deserve that something, so frames their argument in terms of those people feeling and acting "entitled" with the strong implication that no one is entitled to such a thing from birth (like a title of nobility); it must be earned.

These are duals: each time one argument is used, it can easily be converted to the other arguing the opposite direction.

Abstractly, how to frame the argument is pure politics: where to draw a property line.

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