Life, movement, existence—this is what unites us with everything. With every species in the stars that we have not discovered, with our friends, our lovers, our bondmates, our families, our pets, and our enemies. We are all alive. It is the single greatest and most important unifying experience we all share. You would think that alone would build empathy. That all of our having been blessed with, or serendipitously thrown into, a chance to experience a small fraction of all time in the universe would make us kinder to each other or the world kinder to us. But it doesn’t, a lot of the time. A
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