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		silexia 82 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nine things I learned in ninety years Read any biology textbook. The purpose of every life form is to reproduce and create more life. This is the purpose of all evolution and all life.

Anamon 79 days ago [–]

That's not a "purpose", though. It's a precondition and a post-fact explanation for why life exists. There's nobody to say that any individual is supposed to continue the cycle.

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