Many questions that aren’t definitively answerable are nonetheless worth repeating to ask each generation, since the alternative is an ossified answer treated a

Many questions that aren’t definitively answerable are nonetheless worth repeating to ask each generation, since the alternative is an ossified answer treated as if it were definitive (ie a particularly stagnant religious dogma) or that we fall back on simplistic answers that further thought would trouble. Questions of value and purpose and the use of power are chief among these.