The human race was meant to propagate, and the definition of marriage was meant to support that objective, with secondary benefits being the love and support of the partners.

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And yet they are first and foremost games, and games, regardless of how much we may love them, are by definition trivial and superfluous.

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Yet the Beatles remain the band that we can't live and let die, doomed to be recycled as fading photocopies of the original with every incremental improvement in music technology and significant anniversary until one day we can all look forward to high-definition holograms of John, Paul, George and Ringo performing "All You Need is Love" in our living rooms.

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