What does it mean to be human? It means basically to be helpless and in need. In the most important aspects of life, a human being is helpless. He didn't ask to be born and he has no control over when he will die. He cannot choose with whom to fall in love. He is not master of his own fate. His helplessness is tolerable because all human beings are in the same boat, all share a common fate. And each one needs the others to counter the darkness, to keep out the cold, to provide a meaning to existence. We each need others to provide the light, the warmth, the excitement and the challenge of a
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