An extreme sense of entitlement: I present you the entitled gene.
What do you think? $60,000 (USD equivalent) a year in benefits not enough for a family of four? What kind mentality are you teaching your kids. You're fat because I'm fat and there isn't anything you can do about it? Give up? The government owes you? Other tax payers owe you?
What do you think? $60,000 (USD equivalent) a year in benefits not enough for a family of four? What kind mentality are you teaching your kids. You're fat because I'm fat and there isn't anything you can do about it? Give up? The government owes you? Other tax payers owe you?
I suspect this cycle of entitleditis is carried down through generations of helpless souls who feel everyone is to blame for their predicament and everyone else owes them for their failures. Maybe there is even an entitled gene that they can blame it on. We are a nation of great enablers. Always in the victim role.
You may carry genes that make you susceptible to obesity, but you have the ability to change your course of history through your actions. To put it crudely, how many obese concentration camp victims were there? How many obese famine ravished Somalians do you know?
Obesity is a mathematical equation. Calories in = Calories out. Obesity is an imbalance of the equation (of course this excludes certain true genetic/iatrogenic conditions). Some people have to work really hard at the calories in part. Some people have to work really hard at the calories out. It may not be easy. But no one ever said life was supposed to be. Expecting others to pay for your easy way is a Ponzi scheme. Once everyone decides they also want the easy way out, there will be no one left to pay for anyone. This is the America we are rapidly achieving.
Thanks to a reader for the heads up on this sad gem.
There seems to be a hell of a lot of entitlitis going around....swelling of those damned egos!
ReplyDeleteThis dreaded condition is passed on in many families. I am just pleased as punch to know it is not just a US affliction, and that we are not the only taxpayers assisting these malcontent, lazy-assed, "genetically challenged" individuals.
ReplyDeleteI weight 127.6 pounds/ 5,3 feets Im working hard for the calories in part, extensive anaerobical training in the last 5 years, got at least 30 pounds (previous weight 97 pounds), still i think is healthier being in this side of the balance than being fat.
ReplyDeleteNature vs. nurture. The etiology of entitlleditis seem to have a greater share of the later than of the former. The condition is also known as "spoiled brat" syndrome (SB.S). Fortunately, it is correctable through timely intervention.
ReplyDeleteSpoiled child syndrome, "characterized by "excessive, self-centered, and immature behavior." Too bad that there isn't in DSM, yet.
ReplyDeleteThe ails of entitled attitudes and the social dysfunctions of our country all center around poor parenting. Poor parenting begets undiscliplined children who grow up to be poor parents. This is the REAL issue. Smoking, drinking, obesity, crime, sexual abuse, poor school performance, are all symptoms of this disease. (yes, there are situations where these symptoms are not attributed to poor parenting, but most are).
ReplyDeleteClearly they look like they are being paid TOO MUCH!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, let them live on lentil and veggie soup for a year or two and then see how fat they are.
This family isn't *in* our country, they're in a country with a more substantial social safety net. I'm not sure how they reflect on US people, exactly.
ReplyDeleteI can't look at the women in that family and think "calories in = calories out" is the working equation. They just look sick to me, in a "sick (at least partially) causing the fat" way.
When I was in graduate school I had a clinical rotation in a pediatric endocrinology clinic. Every parent with a fat kid (the parents were of course, fat too) stated the child had a "metabolic" problem. The peds endocrinologist explained that less than 1% of obesity in kids is due to metabolism, but the parent's were insistent. What threw me over the edge one day was a mom who came in with her 6 month old infant attached to what looked like a liquid bird feeder. I asked the mom what the contraption was, and she said it was a "hands free feeder". It is a device that allows the parent to feed the infant on demand, without holding their baby. (It takes a lot of effort to hold and feed a baby ya know). So basically, the infant sucked on this tube attached to a bag of formula, was able to feed on demand, and was subsequently grossly over weight. Charming.
ReplyDeleteThe best part of this story, according to one report I read from the UK where the story originated, was the quote by one daughter who stated "I am a student and don't have time to exercise." Hmm... when i was I student I did very little in the way of studying and still did fine. I did a lot of drinking and exercising. I guess her time is filled with eating.
ReplyDelete$60,000.00 a year...oh, yes, life is fair...someone tell me why i just did the treadmill....?
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