From: Mayayana on

| �
| � | What do you mean by "entitlement issues"? Entitlement
| � | to what? And specifically what "issues" are you referring to?
| � |
| �
| � That may be an Americanism. It's psycotherapy
| � lingo -- an attempt to provide an official-style
| � diagnositic term to replace "spoiled". (Spoiled
| � impies a value judgement, which has been a no-no
| � across the board ever since Deconstructionism
| � collided with modern society and produced a nihilistic
| � free-for-all.)
|
| Non sequitur. Entitlement is absent of a value judgement.
|

Yes. That's the point. Entitled is the "value-neutral",
PC term for spoiled. If you didn't grasp that point then
you won't understand the restum. :)

|Argumentum ad hominem.
|
| Argumentum ad absurdum.





From: Paul Clement on
On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:58:11 -0400, "Mayayana" <mayayana(a)invalid.nospam> wrote:

� | � That may be an Americanism. It's psycotherapy
� | � lingo -- an attempt to provide an official-style
� | � diagnositic term to replace "spoiled". (Spoiled
� | � impies a value judgement, which has been a no-no
� | � across the board ever since Deconstructionism
� | � collided with modern society and produced a nihilistic
� | � free-for-all.)
� |
� | Non sequitur. Entitlement is absent of a value judgement.
� |

� Yes. That's the point. Entitled is the "value-neutral",
� PC term for spoiled. If you didn't grasp that point then
� you won't understand the restum. :)


Glad we settled that. We certainly wouldn't want to confuse your point with mine. ;-)


Paul
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Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)