Why is a talent considered a talent? I realize the wording off that sounds off, but why? Sure, there are socially acceptable "skills" that people have including singing, dancing, drawing, sports or anything else crazy. But what makes some of them socially acceptable and others not? For instance, why is someone who can urinate 20 times in an hour not a talent? Well despite the anatomical mystery there, probably because it isn't appealing to the eye. But for that matter, is art? Or is singing always appealing to the ear? Or is throwing a 95 mph fast ball?
Again, I just wan to re-iterate that I have great admiration for people with these 'talents', but I still wonder WHY? What is so impressive that makes me, along with millions and billions of others, become awe-struck and often coughed up, by such acts?
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