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Old 08-19-2013, 10:14 AM   #236 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie View Post
Over here, in the context of government, entitlement actually does have a very specific meaning, and it is very much in the "you owe me" sense.

Yuh mate, it means that too here, and to be honest it's become a very cloudy word of late. It seems that people consider themselves "entitled" to more and more, while having done less and less to actually earn it, or properly deserve it. But that's another story (and a political rant nothing to do with hypermiling).

Still, a driving license is an entitlement to drive, as well as a revocable permission. Or for that matter, a privilege, or whatever anyone chooses to call it.