I work in retail and I see this mentality all the time.  "Of course you should break the rules for me because I am me and therfore special.  My mom told me so!"  This is the same mentality that gives underage kids the audacity to try and buy beer from a clerk doing her job or allows non-disabled people to think they have the right to park in a handicapped spot.  Where and when did this mentality develop?  Serious answers please.
201505
Didn't become that way overnight. Slowly we became bigger, faster, more mobile....our grandparents, their grandparents were different. Big cities, fast pace, fast food, life became a fight. Fight for the better job, the bigger salary, the nicest car, the fanciest house. Toes get stepped on to get to the top, people become less sensitive to the feelings of others. Our kids see it, their kids will probably see it more... off my soapbox, done now. Have a wonderful day, good question by the way.
190926
i think we are all a lil insane. my mom used to say that we lock up the sane. guess you have to be a lil mental to get by.
501409
You hit it right on the head when you said that no one wants to take responsibility for their actions...after all, no one held a gun to their head and said here, smoke this.  People probably figured that since they are addicted to it, they may as well as try to get some money.  It's called extortion.  And unfortunately you can do that and sometimes get away with it in America.  Aahh!  The justice system of this country.
79748
It isn't a handicap ONLY stall, it is a handicap accessible stall.  It is unlike a handicap parking spot that is reserved ONLY for those that are handicapped.  Therefore, they are open game if there is no other stall available.  I have used them, but not if another is available.  Could you imagine how bad you would feel if someone in a wheelchair was waiting for you to get out of a stall??
577990
when people are drinking they tend to become confused and sentimental.\n\ni wouldn't trust anyone to be a better driver, or a better mathematician, when they were legless.\n\nwhy should i expect them to be any more honest?
541158
Open mindedness is a very personal thing. One person decides how much he/she will accept/tolerate from others. I call myself open minded because i live by my motto, basically live and let live! You mention people drinking their own urine ... Well they can well do it as much as they like just as long as they don't expect me to follow suit! You mention peadophiles and have to realise that some people may well have been abused or their children have in which case such people would never accept peadophiles, let alone tolerate them! \n\nI think you'll find that most people's degrees of tolerance/acceptance vary depending on their upbringing, primary socialisation, life circumstances. Picture yourself coming home after a bad at work, a really sore head to hear your kids playing rave music on full blast ... You wouldn't tolerate it if, at other times, you might actually enjoy it!\n\nI am a registered mental health nurse and have worked with categories of people the vast majority of us would never wish to associate with under normal circumstances, some of the patients included peadophilesand worse ... As a nurse it was my duty to treat anyone the same, regardless of what they had done (Be it alleged pending trial or proven) And i did it because it was what i did! This doesn't mean to say that i approved of what they had done (Alleged to have done) because other patients were in the ward following crimes perpetrated against them ... Same crimes these people were in for a psychiatric assessment! But it didn't reflect on my care and the way i spoke to them.  \n\nMy interpretation of open mindedness is that, and no matter how our own perception/values affect our judgement ... Not to let it show and treat people the same if privately we may feel that we do not condone what a person did!
442282
always leave before the system goes live; and two, always set someone up to take the blame.\n\nUnfortunately this is all too accurate.\n\nIt is an attack on them.  Unfortunately the people that do this often rise in a corporation.  They get promoted before the havoc they caused is detected.  Eventually they rise above the level where they are contributing technically.  They rarely actually bear the stigma of the poor job they do
671731
people are rude & cruel and seem to have the mentality of the Gladiators....it is also a way for ignorant people to take the notice off their own ignorance and direct it to others hwo do know what they  are talking about.\n Ever notice how a person who is clueless seems to always call you a fool,just becasue they don't know about something ??
600312
People who say those silly things were like that when they were kids. They grew in size, but still maintain their childish behavior. Some refer to it as "spoiled". When they don't get their way they throw a tantrum. Bet they were like that when Mom took them to the store.
103441
Well, I am Law Abiding and I think it's stupid that the government has to give permission before someone can be hired.  Are we not free anymore?\n\nWe all know how messed up the government is, what if someone can't work because of some stupid snafu?  What if it takes months to straighten it out? How do they expect people to live?
543135
They may be simply asking questions to find out if you'll not exhibit behavior that wouldn't fit in.  Are you normal?   Do you have a temper problem?  Will you bend over backwards to help customers?  They will ask them in less subtle ways than direct questions.  They may ask you rude questions to see if you can take it calmly.  They may present situation to see how you will handle them.  \nMost importantly, you need to speak up and let them know you understand the importance of you doing a good job.  You understand that the business is selling groceries, so you will either really help customers find things, or stock shelves so the fresh stuff is out in time or you will check them out faster.\nYou have to show you understand that if you're a grouch they will shop somewhere else.  \nTherefore your every action is to contribute to the bottom line -- the profit -- of the store.
10490
I think it is usually acceptable to break the law if, by not breaking it, someone would suffer bodily harm or death. Also, if the law is fundamentally designed to discriminate, I think that at the very least some people need to break it in order to be able to argue against it in the Supreme Court, for example when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
397384
I was a shy child growing up. \nMore so i didnt want to put a foot out of place because i would have gotten a backhand from my parents. \n\nSo being shy i dont believe is being selfish. \nBut play that your shy when really your not thats something different. \nBeing Coy , playing mental games with other kids.. \nSure that isnt nice at all. \nBut just being shy.. no.. \n\nIm not that shy now days.. i pretty much stand up and be counted. \nAlthough strange place with alot of strangers around me i will keep my head down as not to offend cause problems until i feel safe and secure to stand my ground.
136766
I know what you mean.  I had a "permanent temporary" position in the receiving office of a warehouse that also had a lot of "permanent temporary" warehouse workers.  The temps were paid less than half the hourly rate of the regular employees and received no benefits.  One of the warehouse managers would always remark about the "lazy temps" and the "stupid temps" even though often the temps would be doing all the work as their own employees did nothing.  Also, in all the time I worked there (about 8 months) not once did a temp cause an accident, but at least three times, the same company employee ran into someone with a forklift, and they didn't care because it was a temp that he hit every time.  Once they even brought in pizza, had the company employees eat, then told the temps we could eat the leftovers.  I flatly told them that if I want pizza, I will go and buy it fresh, but I do not eat anyone else's scraps.  They then said that I had an "attitude".
358883
People like to take the easy way out in life, so they blame their actions on someone else, "The easy way"! People don't like to say "I'm fat because I'm lazy, I smoke because I'm weak minded, I'm poor because I have a 5th grade education, and I can't control my children because I let them back talk me and I'm weak! Grrrrrrrr....
565148
Exactly, we have become a nation of people who think everything is someone else's fault, especially if it gets us some money. Obviously not everyone falls into this category but far too many do. I think it started with the court system blaming "a bad childhood" for some 18 year old killing some poor dude minding his own business. People know what's right and wrong and they need to have guts enough to admit when they screw up. Okay off the soap box.
666618
I park in a handicap spot. I park there because I have a permit. It's absolutely amazing the people who sit in their cars and feel they are not taking a space. People with handicaps do want to be treated equal that is why they require proper access to buildings, bathrooms and ramps so they can carry on life in the most normal fashion. If the other person feels that treating someone equal amounts to denying someone access to basic requirements of life that is very sad for them.  They obviously have a very limited view of society and do not know or have in their family someone with a challenge. God works in mysterious ways.