One of the most frequently heard arguments against psychic chat online is the notion that it is somehow obscene for psychics to accept money for using talents that some believe were given to them by God. The corollary to this argument is that the very structure of psychic chat rooms encourages the multitudes of phony psychics to ply their illicit trade in an environment where they are virtually indistinguishable from legitimate psychic enterprises. While the latter holds true in many cases, the underlying premise is questionable at best.
In saying that psychics should only be allowed to offer their abilities for free, the critics are recycling an argument that has been used with some measure of effect in regards to priests and ministers of the Christian faith. The argument flies in the face of common sense and common decency, as most people believe that a workman is due his or her wages. In other words, when one uses one’s talents to assist people who need them, one should be allowed to earn a living from that service. To deny that basic premise is to assert that psychics – who have in some cases an irrepressible need to help their fellow man – should be left with no source of income should they choose to follow their calling at a psychic chat online.
In no other enterprise of man is any expert in his field made the object of scorn or ridicule for accepting remuneration for the services he provides. Each of us is expected to market our talents to those who need them, and to support ourselves with the income we derive from the services we provide. Psychics who perform readings through psychic chat online have skills that are in high demand and for those skills they should expect a reasonable wage. Unfortunately, there are those who, for the advancement of their own agendas, would seek to discredit the psychic in much the same way they have in the past sought to discredit priests and ministers.
Most experts do agree that there is considerable infiltration of the psychic chat online environment by unscrupulous con artists who attempt to profit from unwary customers who are unable to identify them as frauds. Of course, the same held true prior to the internet, when some companies had banks of telephones manned by non-psychics who read people’s fortunes from prepared scripts. Prior to that, many scams and frauds were perpetrated around the world by those who pretended to be psychic to gain access to their preys’ wallets.
Of course, one could make the same argument about ministers who have embezzled church funds, or stockbrokers, hedge-fund managers, and even politicians who have made off with millions of dollars of stolen money. Though the world of psychic chat online has its shares of miscreants and outright criminals, that minority should not be the standard by which all psychics are judged. Where the illegitimate are found, they should be prosecuted. But where the honest workman labors, he should be paid.
