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There is a level of entitlement that has totally gone berserk.

The radicals are demanding that you change your beliefs and values so that the world will be better.

Some people are demanding that you forsake any reason, logic, or common sense for a practice that is not rationale, logical, or based on humanity's sense.

Some are demanding that they get your attention because they believe that their story is better than yours, hence, the attention. 

Students are demanding that they get into the honor roll just for showing up.

Parents are demanding that their kids get to enrol in prestigious institutions and will readily bribe officials just to get entry.

Politicians are seeking the truth when they themselves are complicit of using science, research, and global consensus to mask what's going on with the pandemic for example. 

Non-profits are feeling entitled to use their volunteers in order to skimp on organizational support and development and avoid getting the funding for the latter. 

The social media is full of hypocritical beings who are posers but not real doers, advocates of something that when push comes to shove, not very willing to forgo their convenience, lifestyle, ways of life, and the status quo.

How to deal with and navigate around these entitled individuals, organizations, and entities:

1. Reverse their argument. How they would feel if the other person or target group or beneficiaries or constituencies would demand the same?

2. Who benefits from these demands? What actors and groups and causes they are promoting and against? What are the stakes here? 

3. Think systemically. How this course of action can lead to more negative impacts down the line? Is this going to be another palliative or flavor-of-the-month solution?  Where is that movement is this leading to? Is this resolving an issue or using another group or issue to cover-up or devalue the persistent long-term ones?

4. Some demands and suppositions are downright illegal, unethical, and pie-in-the-sky. Learn to discern and debate well.