Well, yes... people who wonder about these things are probably in a position where they'll never actually have an answer to the questions in their mind.
[ children who don't wonder about that can take the fact that they were wanted by their parents as granted, kaiser thinks. he also spent some span of his life wondering about the circumstances of his birth before concluding that there's nothing that he'd get out of pondering it any further. the fact of the matter is that he's alive, whether or not anybody wanted it to happen, and now he has to make that everybody else's problem.
that is to say, kaiser also feels no need to say that he understands to keep all of this in confidence. a german boy in a glass house shouldn't throw the first rock, after all. ] ]
... Then, from your perspective, that calf certainly didn't have a soul. Because it didn't have a single true choice on how to live its life, a soul could never have developed in it.
[ it's almost tempting to empathize with the calf, but kaiser won't. because he does have a choice — there is a certain awareness in the back of his mind that he has enough money, along with looks and fame, that he doesn't have to continue playing football, if he truly didn't want to. therefore, by either of their definitions, kaiser concludes: he has a soul, the calf did not. ]
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[ children who don't wonder about that can take the fact that they were wanted by their parents as granted, kaiser thinks. he also spent some span of his life wondering about the circumstances of his birth before concluding that there's nothing that he'd get out of pondering it any further. the fact of the matter is that he's alive, whether or not anybody wanted it to happen, and now he has to make that everybody else's problem.
that is to say, kaiser also feels no need to say that he understands to keep all of this in confidence. a german boy in a glass house shouldn't throw the first rock, after all. ] ]
... Then, from your perspective, that calf certainly didn't have a soul. Because it didn't have a single true choice on how to live its life, a soul could never have developed in it.
[ it's almost tempting to empathize with the calf, but kaiser won't. because he does have a choice — there is a certain awareness in the back of his mind that he has enough money, along with looks and fame, that he doesn't have to continue playing football, if he truly didn't want to. therefore, by either of their definitions, kaiser concludes: he has a soul, the calf did not. ]