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"It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
One of the main reasons humans have been so successful, as Israeli researcher Yuval Noah Harari points out, is due to what is called “fictive kinship.” Most species hang out only with family. Everybody else is a potential enemy. Good ol’ Homo sapiens have been so successful because we’ve extended the definition of family by using mutually agreed up
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