With apologies to Hamlet, “to be or not to be” is not a question but a rebuke: how could God burden His children with the torment of choice and the consciousness of death? Hamlet should have known better than to try reasoning his way out of dilemmas that surpass the human mind, which is too closely bound to bivalent logic. The moral life cannot be reduced to antinomies, which ignore the context of history, the maelstrom of emotion and confusion that is the lot of man.
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