There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
