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I'm afraid breathable air does cost you the energy required to operate the lungs. This energy is mostly generated from digesting organic matter such as vegetab
by precisioncoder 13y ago
I'm afraid breathable air does cost you the energy required to operate the lungs. This energy is mostly generated from digesting organic matter such as vegetables and meat which can vary in price. Free cannot exist since we live in a universe with entropy. In other words in any given system some energy (cost) is lost.
- boomlinde 13y agoHe said breathable air, not breathing.
- precisioncoder 13y agoEverything is free if you have no intention of using it. I simply expanded on one possible use case for the usage of said "free" air.
- boomlinde 13y agoIn doing so, you invalidated your argument.
- precisioncoder 13y agoInteresting, please expand on that. You say that I invalidated my argument but provided no explanation for why.
- boomlinde 13y agoI thought you explained it perfectly yourself, but sure. You were not addressing the original point about breathable air being free. Instead, you built a straw man, based on the presumed cost of /breathing/ it, which actually had nothing to do with the original point. By the way, if you want to be as anal about the definition of "free" as to include totally peripheral expenses (as if a pencil costs you $100 for signing a check with it), you might as well get to the bottom of it and say that everything is free on the basis that no matter or energy is ever expended.