gattino
Justified & Ancient
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I'm not sure i understand "its not a gift if you're charging for it". Both semantically and ethically i can't see the sense of it.
On the semantic side surely you mean its not a gift if you're paying for it. And the medium presumably isn't. The client or sitter isn't said to have a gift. And in the case of the psychic the giver is presumably "god"/"the universe"/"spirit" who is not commonly said to be charging them.
If someone gives me something for free and i sell it to you its still my gift, its just not yours.
That aside the moral argument doesn't really make much sense either. Its surely the only alleged positive talent that people are supposed to be wrong to profit from. Why? Assuming it to be real (or even just believed by both parties to be real) someone who speaks to the dead, sees the future, or heals the sick is surely going to be inundated by people night and day demanding their time and talents. If its taking up all their time how are they meant to pay their bills? How are they meant to reduce the number of people making demands of them? And why are they remotely obliged to do it for free regardless?
On the semantic side surely you mean its not a gift if you're paying for it. And the medium presumably isn't. The client or sitter isn't said to have a gift. And in the case of the psychic the giver is presumably "god"/"the universe"/"spirit" who is not commonly said to be charging them.
If someone gives me something for free and i sell it to you its still my gift, its just not yours.
That aside the moral argument doesn't really make much sense either. Its surely the only alleged positive talent that people are supposed to be wrong to profit from. Why? Assuming it to be real (or even just believed by both parties to be real) someone who speaks to the dead, sees the future, or heals the sick is surely going to be inundated by people night and day demanding their time and talents. If its taking up all their time how are they meant to pay their bills? How are they meant to reduce the number of people making demands of them? And why are they remotely obliged to do it for free regardless?