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A constraint is only possibly a cost - if it forces behavior you wouldn't have chosen otherwise.



True, but free usually means freedom from both cost and restraint, so the point doesn't change much. I should have said "constraint" rather than "cost".

Though the original commenter did follow-up, clarifying that the common interpretation of "free" doesn't closely match the point he'd intended to make


Fair.




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