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Jennifer Michael Hecht — 'We Believe Each Other Into Being'

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Is Its Choosing Life, Ye?

"There's a moral argument. There's a spiritual argument, by some definition," he says. "And it's its choosing living, choosing staying alive, choosing staying alive." It doesn't really mean you have to go out and do a lot of communal things, though all sorts of studies show that will help force yourself to go be with other people. Is is as a good start. And most people through history had it without trying. They lived in tiny communities that were besieged by either drought or flood but they were more aware of their connection to each other....

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