I think I may have found a group I dislike more than Scientology.

But he stands by not actually paying for anything, so backtracking or not, he should have some sort of explanation as to why he wants the comic shop to remain open.

seriously ninjendo, i wish i could rep you more

I apologize for my snarky replies, but it's extremely frustrating as a public employee in the teaching profession to hear this kind of nonsense. We do have a problem with a sense of entitlement in the upcoming generation and, to some extent, my own.

When I see someone posting publicly like this, in a forum, that they are doing it because they can't afford something....sorry, I kind of lose it.

I totally agree Ninjendo. If the future leaders of our country have that big a sense of entitlement how bad off are we all going to be. No one will ever create a new business.

One day maybe they will wake up but I don't have high hopes. We can only try to reason with them. I know thats insane since most teenagers and young adults think they know it all so why would they listen to us but still.

Dude, politically, I am *still* considered a 'young adult.'

^_^

so am I Im 29.

This really isn't anything new with the current generation of teenagers, and the same thing has been repeated by adults for at least the last 50-60 years. I would say it isn't so much a sense of entitlement as much as a combination of naivety, lack or knowledge of how the world works, and youthful optimism. Not saying there isn't a sense of entitlement, just that is isn't mutually exclusive to the current gen of teens.

not saying its exclusive. What I am intimating however is that its becoming more and more common an idea in successive generations.

Which makes me think Parents are doing nothing to teach their kids financial responsibility and educating them how the world actually works.

Yep, couldn't agree more about that!

I guess by the letter of the law, yes you're right.

However, I work in the film industry. Say I get a percentage of the DVD sales (not uncommon). If someone downloads that DVD instead of buying it, then I don't get paid and they get the product for free. So essentially they are taking my "produced goods" without paying for them, which I would classify as stealing.