But that's also true in varying degrees of the kind of lunch you pay money for, and strictly speaking that is a separate issue, though the two do get confused in much the same way as Charles Darwin's principles of natural selection get confused with businessmen making hostile takeovers. Expenditure of energy to produce a given result is a very different thing from financial obligation and ownership; for one thing, the energy -->lunch --> energy process doesn't necessarily have to involve anyone else, as in the blackberry example. The energy I expend to pick the berries is not passed on in any useful form to anyone else, so it's not a "payment" in the financial sense.
And the other point stands; whose energy paid for the fact that we have lunches, and energy, and bodies, and a world in the first place? As far as anyone knows, as Jarod says, life's a gift.
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Date: 2009-12-21 07:04 am (UTC)And the other point stands; whose energy paid for the fact that we have lunches, and energy, and bodies, and a world in the first place? As far as anyone knows, as Jarod says, life's a gift.