Heard on a call-in talk show about this year’s most popular songs. A young woman phoned in to give her opinion about the rankings and along the way made this comment:
“A lot of radio stations have ‘The Drive at 5’ shows, when they play a lot of cool songs without commercials. I think it’s kind of unfair, since I don’t get off work until 5:30, so I miss a lot of good songs.”
My philosophy antennae are set to quiver when charged normative concepts like fair are used. And with all due attention to the casual off-the-cuff radio forum, I can’t help but wonder why she used unfair rather than, say, unfortunate or why she didn’t say she wished the shows started later.
Implicitly, her operative principle of fairness is other people satisfying my desires on a schedule that is convenient to me.
Is this the entitlement mentality at work? Or am I being, like, totally unfair to the young woman here?
No, would say ye hit it on the head – entitlement mentality, a prevailing view as ‘given’ as sacrificing…