Sunday, September 4, 2011

Spoiled Child

The spoiled child has not been made to see the relationship between effort and reward.  He wants things, but he regards payment as an imposition or as an expression of malice by those who withhold for it.  His solution, as we shall see, is to abuse those who do not gratify him.
Source: Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences 1948

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