A free gift can exist as long as the receiver doesn’t inscribe any meaning to the gift more than an object they have received. It all depends on the receiver. You could be trying to express the deepest part of emotions involved with your relationship to the receiver; but if the intent isn’t recognized by the receiver, as far as they are concerned it doesn’t exist. So, all you did was transfer an object from your control to the receiver's control. This means if you’re giving to a robot, or an asshole, then free gifts exist: unless your gift is free advice, or life, in which case it’s up to the receiver to determine whether it was actually a gift in the first place. And the moral of the story is never give the gift of life to an asshole.
Now let’s everybody be a little less subversive and lay off on the holidays.
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