Here is story by Sebastian Junger on how duty isn’t a burden, but a gift.
There are only three questions that need to be answered in life: Is my group safe in the world? Am I safe in my group? And are my children safe with me? In some ways everything else is a detail. When people do things that address those questions, it makes them feel good – ecstatic, even.
It’s not a gift we’re given often:
This may be the first time in history where, if you ask a person to describe their obligations to society, they’ll have no coherent answer.
Duty is one of Junger’s recurring themes, and it’s what I remembered most vividly from his 2016 book Tribe.
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