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Well, the numbers you give are frankly unbelievable and I don't believe them.
The fact the the sources appear to conflate spanking and child abuse is not encouraging in regard to their trustworthiness.
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Strictly he is not saying that the team-members should feel entitled. I understand his example to be that you can behave like you are entitled but aren't feeling entitled.
I agree though that he doesn't talk about cases where a feeling of entitlement might be proper. Like in the team case.
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Well some of his examples, not to mention the title of the post, make it seem like he thinks feelings of entitlement are never proper.
Sometimes, it’s just that someone baked cookies to congratulate their team on a job well-done, and you’re not on that team but you wanted a cookie, and no one seemed to mind.
I have been the cookie guy. Probably with literal cookies, although probably a different situation—not that I would know, since I was just paying attention to the cookies.
And if someone had refused me the cookies, I wouldn’t have been like “WHAT!?”. I would have said something polite and moved on. But if someone had suggested I was rude for asking, I might have been a bit indignant: “I was just asking…”
So what you're saying is that the members of the team should feel entitled to all the cookies simply because they did a good job and the cookies were baked specifically for them? But aren't you arguing that feelings of entitlement are bad? In fact, you listed as an example of entitlement that
people sometimes find themselves feeling like they deserve something because they worked hard for it.
Now I'm confused.
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The problem with a meme like "be yourself" is that not everyone who comes across it is going to interpret it in the "moderate" way or even the same "moderate" way. Someone already pre-disposed to become a serial killer is going to interpret it as encouragement to go ahead.
In a way this resembles a mote-and-bailey type situation.
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If you don't filter out anybody for being a troll:
sqlite> select count(StoriesRead6) from data where StoriesRead6 = "Whole Thing"; 7
sqlite> select count(StoriesRead6) from data where StoriesRead6 = "Whole Thing" and BasiliskCorrectness = "Yes"; 1
Probability that you 'believe' in the Basilisk given you said you read all of Sharon Mitchell's Synthesis is one in seven.
sqlite> select count(*) from data where BasiliskCorrectness="Yes"; 75
Probability that you said you read all of Sharon Mitchell's Synthesis given you 'believe' in the Basilisk is about 1.33%
Of course, if the idea of the Lizardman's constant becomes too well-known, trolls will start not falling for obvious lizardman questions.