| fastyxx said: Your discussion is always couched in these subtle giveaways of the slanted input you consume. "Entitlement" is only a bad word, fundamentally different from a "right" if you are on the right trying to save all the money for the lucky few. It's like "activist judge", used only by conservatives when they disagree with the ruling. If the law overturned favors them they are "upholding the Constitution." You're a toal intellectual fraud. It's disgusting.
Entitlement : 1 a : the state or condition of being entitled : right b : a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract
An entitlement is a guarantee of access to benefits based on established rights or by legislation. A "right" is itself an entitlement associated with a moral or social principle, such that an "entitlement" is a provision made in accordance with legal framework of a society. Typically, entitlements are laws based on concepts of principle ("rights") which are themselves based in concepts of social equality or enfranchisement.
As a legal term, entitlement carries no value judgment: it simply denotes a right granted.
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funny how you left the second part of the definition off, and didn't link to the source:
"In a casual sense, the term "entitlement" refers to a notion or belief that one (or oneself) is deserving of some particular reward or benefit [1]—if given without deeper legal or principled cause, the term is often given with pejorative connotation (e.g. a "sense of entitlement")."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entitlement
And you call me an intellectual fraud.
