what is entitlement?

[Honest]

even if you say over-entitled, who decides what that means, it still feels effectively meaningless or heavily subjective

yeah. i was going to include that in my original post by saying that, even if we take it as being synonymous with over-entitled, it's still a hollow phrase. it's just another way of saying 'you are asking for too much'... which would be fine, if people actually followed with a justification for why they think that it's too much; but, in reality, most people use it as a stand-alone gotcha

i was also going to say that it's a pretty effective method to attack others, as the 'entitled' person now has to go on the defensive and explain why theyre not actually entitled (because being seen as 'entitled' is synonymous with being seen as an immoral selfish freak), which then begs the question of: 'ok, so if you're not entitled, then why are you asking for something that i dont want?'

at the end of the day, the vast majority of people are brainwashed to repeat snappy phrases and hold dogmas that they have no thought-out justification for, and the modern version of 'entitlement' was a phrase introduced to facilitate a certain way of thinking that would benefit western government and corporations, while being hostile to the rights of the citizenry