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There is no meaning in nature, Claire. There is no right or wrong about a bear killing and eating a salmon. A mountain lion catches a lamb and kills it and eats it. There is no reason or meaning. It’s just the way it works. Meaning is something we humans overlay on things.” I smiled. “If we were rabbits, we’d be eating because we were hungry. You would eat this lettuce leaf here, and this tomato, and I would be a horrible, mutant carnivorous wabbit, eating the steak, and then possibly you. But we would be eating to survive, because that’s how it works.” I shrugged. “But we are humans, not wabbits, so we are sitting here eating while we try to give things deep, complicated meanings.
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