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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (89403)11/23/2004 12:36:21 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
I love antique hunting- but I often feel morally ambivalent about it. Why? Because it often involves having superior knowledge and getting things from people for far less than they would sell them for if they knew what those things were worth.

Very few things are not morally ambivalent. I chose my favorite leisure activity, because like hunting, I feel it is laden with some moral ambivalence, if you really think about it. Every amazing deal you get, is at someone else's cost, and maybe they really needed the money.

I don't see any moral ambivalence in helping a child learn to read, or helping battered women, or feeding the hungry. Maybe it's there- if it is, let me know, and I love the justification for the socially redeeming aspects of antique hunting. I will be using that next weekend on my husband.
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