You'll recall the last time we talked about this that I pointed out my arrangement for the exchange of the books wasn't actually with you. It was a favor I had negotiated with Kaveh. You've presently offered no justification for why I should indulge you a favor, and you certainly haven't offered payment in kind so it's not a transaction for valuable consideration.
You have my book out of sheer kindness. Kindness which, I'll hasten to point out, you don't seem to have any interest in extending. That's fine. You're not obligated to. In fact, you've proved the point I was arguing the other day, which is that the only reason I matter to anyone is for what I'm able to do or deliver to them.
But Kaveh was relentless in insisting that I have some sort of inherent personal worth, which follows in part that I can presumably do better than to expend my time on people who aren't going to treat me as anything more than a convenient dispenser for the things they want from me. And so I've decided to see what it feels like if I presume for a minute that he's right.
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You'll recall the last time we talked about this that I pointed out my arrangement for the exchange of the books wasn't actually with you. It was a favor I had negotiated with Kaveh. You've presently offered no justification for why I should indulge you a favor, and you certainly haven't offered payment in kind so it's not a transaction for valuable consideration.
You have my book out of sheer kindness. Kindness which, I'll hasten to point out, you don't seem to have any interest in extending. That's fine. You're not obligated to. In fact, you've proved the point I was arguing the other day, which is that the only reason I matter to anyone is for what I'm able to do or deliver to them.
But Kaveh was relentless in insisting that I have some sort of inherent personal worth, which follows in part that I can presumably do better than to expend my time on people who aren't going to treat me as anything more than a convenient dispenser for the things they want from me. And so I've decided to see what it feels like if I presume for a minute that he's right.