Tank entitlement vs group entitlement

[Fyce]

Those points are that we have so few tanks as it is, and kicking one for the reluctance to do large pulls is unreasonable.

That's a ridiculous statement. You don't get a free pass at doing what you want just because you play a role that is in demand. That's absolutly not how it works.
And don't try to use that "muh responsabilities" argument, it's a total fraud. Again, the weight of these "responsabilities" doesn't give you the right to ignore the will of the majority of the group just because you want to watch Netflix after throwing a few Flash/Overpower and pressing a cooldown once in a while. You claim that healing is easy, well, guess what, tanking is even easier. Trying to argue otherwise would only show how little knowledge one would have on tanking (at least in dungeons).

You want to know an actual reason why a lot of players don't play tanks? Because of people like you, who make it look like tanking is so hard and would put tons of responsabilities on their shoulders. So if you could drop that line of thinking and stop spreading it, maybe people would actually start being less anxious at something that is clearly not as bad as you make it sound.

I never said adjusting to the strength of the party lacks common sense. I said tanks are under no obligation to do so. This is a courtesy, not a rule.

Calling something that is at the core of a tank's duty and teamplay a "courtesy" is preposterous.
And even then, if you are not courteous in a multiplayer environment -or think is okay not to be as if it was optional-, then you not only fail at being a tank or even a team player as I said previously, but you also fail as a human being for lacking any kind of empathy and decency toward your teammates. Like, really, you are trying to make an argument excusing bad teamplay because "you're not forced to be courteous". Are you really aware of what kind of argument you are using and how toxic that kind of behavior would be if it was widespread?
Whatever the case, yes, adapting your pulls to your party is a rule. That's one of your main job as a tank. Arguing otherwise makes me wonder who is lacking common sense here. So if 3 out of 4 people want you to pull more, you being the 4th, and if you don't have a good reason not to (and no, "being a tank with responsabilities" is not a good reason), then you should pull more. Period. Refusing to do so -for no valid reason- only opens yourself to get kicked for "differences in playstyle". And it would be deserved.

Tanks are not precious. They don't have more privileges or entitlement than other players. Stop thinking they are some kind of snowflakes that everyone should protect and blindly follow without being able to contest their decisions.
If your party doesn't like the way you play, try to ask you to change and you refuse, you get kicked. Tank or not. And I'm saying that as someone with more than 4 years of tanking in this game, and more in others. I would gladly take a kick if I was not "courterous" in a dungeon or if I tried to play selfishly for no reason other than a self-proclaimed entitlement.