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[boomlinde]

He said breathable air, not breathing.

[precisioncoder → boomlinde]

Everything 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 → precisioncoder]

In doing so, you invalidated your argument.

[precisioncoder → boomlinde]

Interesting, please expand on that. You say that I invalidated my argument but provided no explanation for why.

[boomlinde → precisioncoder]

I 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.