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Debate Score:25
Arguments:22
Total Votes:25
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Does Christmas create a false sense of entitlement for children?

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YES

Side Score: 16
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NO

Side Score: 9

Absolutely, every child expects to get presents for Christmas based on good behavior. Some parents solely rely on the donations from charities when gift giving to their children, is it a mystery why more and more gifts are expected each year for donation through all the those programs, the clear answer is no. More and more parents don't even want to earn those gifts to give to their kids.

Even adults are adopting this sense of entitlement as well with all of the Santa Clause government programs.

Side: YES

I am open minded now and wondering what some of your solutions are to this mess.

Side: YES

Unfortunately, society may have crawled to far into the rabbit hole with this. Christmas is so engraved into the fabric of the United States that there may not be any solutions to this mess. Fabricating a fictional character like Santa Claus was created to trick children into good behavior, this was probably not the greatest idea.

Side: YES
2 points

Adults: Christmas is the time for giving!

Children: K, so give us presents!

Side: YES

Well yeah I guess. I felt like I was entitled to a gift, but my dad spoils me anyway. So I totes agree.

Side: YES
Warjin(1577) Clarified
3 points

You and that dam "Totes", I feel like pulling my hair out lol .

Side: YES
Enaccpersona(232) Clarified
1 point

When you pick a personality to fake, you gotta stick with it's behavior.

Side: YES

Sorry. I usually text that all the time to friends. Totes & fabu are the only words I use excessively.

Side: YES

It does actually. I recieved nothing but peace on Christmas, and I'm cool with that. I will recieve money, but even if I don't I have life, some liberty, and God willing the pursuit of happiness.

Side: YES

I don't believe that Christmas creates the false sense of entitlement, I believe that culture does.

I looked forward to Christmas as a child, because that and my birthday were the only times I got any new toys or clothes, and even then not much in the way of them. My birthday fell at the beginning of the school year, so I'd get new clothes for school then and a few token toys, and at christmas I'd get clothes for winter, spring, and summer. Who else remembers opening up gifts containing shorts and swimming trunks when there's half a foot of snow outside? Outside of my birthday and christmas, the only toys I ever got were the (very rare) happy meal toy and the more-frequent cracker jack prize.

But if you take a child that is already more or less spoiled and is given pretty much whatever he or she wants, and then add a huge load of gifts on top of that every christmas- I can see that creating a sense of entitlement, surely. But it goes well beyond Christmas in my estimation.

Side: NO
1 point

True, it is the culture that creates the false sense of entitlement, but Christmas is the underlying factor. It is perpetuated through the spirit of the Christmas.

Side: YES
1 point

If it was Christmas, one would expect to see the sense of entitlement wherever Christmas is celebrated, no? I suggest that what we see of Christmas now is an affect rather than a cause.

I assert that a cultural sense of entitlement has distorted the 'spirit of Christmas' in several developed countries to fit, USA being front and center amongst those; modern christmas celebration doesn't create entitlement, but rather entitlement created the modern christmas celebration.

Side: NO

Children don't know the concept of entitlement. Children should have their innocence of believing in Santa Claus.

Side: NO