You’re Not Special

[Casey]

Originally Posted by sprog

The Orioles are only one game out of first in the AL East.

The Red Sox are DFL.

We don't need to bring that one up...it was painful to watch them implode last season and has been painful to watch them for most of this season thus far.

On topic though, I figure everyone has their own ways they're going to contribute. Some are more talented in certain areas than others and which are more productive to society. Calling everyone special just plays into the whole entitlement feeling a lot of my generation feels in my opinon

[Christcorp]

I've watched this social attitude change over the last 20+ years, and it's always peed me off. Can't keep score in a game of kickball in elementary school. All the players on the little league team getting a trophy at the awards dinner even though they were the last place team of 9 teams.

Both my son and daughter completed their undergraduate degrees in 4 years. (Son academy and daughter State University). When talking to friends who's kids went to school with my son and daughter, and how they are still in college working on their 5-6th year of their undergraduate, and they learned my kids already graduated; I noticed their immediate defensive reaction of how "It's not a race".

I've said for years how political correctness has and continues to weaken our society. This attitude that everyone's a winner (Not wanting to hurt anyone's feelings), is part of the political correctness attitude.

What parents, teachers, and society should be teaching our children is:
1) If you work hard enough, you can achieve whatever you want.
2) No matter how hard you try, you can't always achieve what you want.
3) Life isn't always fair; nor should it be. Some will be better at things and receive things you don't; and you will be better at things and receive things that others don't.
4) Life and society doesn't owe you ANYTHING other than the right to Life, Liberty, and the PURSUIT of Happiness. Just because you PURSUE it, doesn't mean you'll always obtain it. No one owes you anything.

[sprog]

Originally Posted by Christcorp

What parents, teachers, and society should be teaching our children is:
1) If you work hard enough, you can achieve whatever you want.
2) No matter how hard you try, you can't always achieve what you want.
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Number one and number two contradict each other.

I think that number two is correct.

[AF6872]

Christcorp. SPROG See #3 for explanation of #2

[goaliedad]

No longer is it how you play the game, no longer is it even whether you win or lose, or learn or grow, or enjoy yourself doing it... Now it’s “So what does this get me?” As a consequence, we cheapen worthy endeavors, and building a Guatemalan medical clinic becomes more about the application to Bowdoin than the well-being of Guatemalans. It’s an epidemic ...

Welcome to Ayn Rand's world???

[sprog]

Originally Posted by AF6872

Christcorp. SPROG See #3 for explanation of #2

No arguments from me on #2 or #3. #1 doesn't work for me. You can't have #1 as long as #2 and #3 are true (which they are).

[Blackbird]

Originally Posted by sprog

No arguments from me on #2 or #3. #1 doesn't work for me. You can't have #1 as long as #2 and #3 are true (which they are).

+1

[osdad]

Turn #1 around and they all fit:

If you don't work hard, you will not achieve what you want.