![]() ![]() You have been endowed with a sense of sympathy-the ability to like, love, respect, help, and show kindness-and you can enjoy the gift of mutual benevolence with friends, family, and colleagues. ![]() As the heir to billions of years of life perpetuating itself, you can perpetuate life in turn. You can appreciate the beauty and richness of the natural and cultural world. You can make the most of your capacity for pleasure and satisfaction, which allowed your ancestors to thrive and thereby allowed you to exist. You can seek explanations of the natural world through science, and insight into the human condition through the arts and humanities. You can refine your faculty of reason itself by learning and debating. ![]() And there are so many reasons to live! As a sentient being, you have the potential to flourish. Steven Pinker answers: In the very act of asking that question, you are seeking reasons for your convictions, and so you are committed to reason as the means to discover and justify what is important to you. ![]()
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