To me deserve flows from experiencing the predicatable consequences of one’s actions.
If the cultural norms for my area is to wait in line at the bank, checkout, restraunt, etc., and I do so, I deserve to be served when I reach the front of it (barring any prior actions towards the owners like theft, or personal connections). Someone who comes in later does not deserve to be served until others in the queue have been.
Or, less in a less relative example, if I see dark clouds and go out dressed for warm weather when I have rain clothes at hand, I deserve to feel uncomforable.
I do not deserve to be assaulted by random strangers, when I have not personally performed any actions that would initaiate conflict that violence would resolve or done anything which tends to anger other people.
Of course, the certainty of getting what one deserves is not 1, and one must expect that the unexpected will happen in some context eventually.
To me deserve flows from experiencing the predicatable consequences of one’s actions. If the cultural norms for my area is to wait in line at the bank, checkout, restraunt, etc., and I do so, I deserve to be served when I reach the front of it (barring any prior actions towards the owners like theft, or personal connections). Someone who comes in later does not deserve to be served until others in the queue have been. Or, less in a less relative example, if I see dark clouds and go out dressed for warm weather when I have rain clothes at hand, I deserve to feel uncomforable. I do not deserve to be assaulted by random strangers, when I have not personally performed any actions that would initaiate conflict that violence would resolve or done anything which tends to anger other people. Of course, the certainty of getting what one deserves is not 1, and one must expect that the unexpected will happen in some context eventually.