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This means, among other things, that we can—and should—, make should—make laws for our own actions, since on this earth human beings alone are able consciously to participate in creativity. With our "power of conscious choice," we are unlike other species in being "somewhat beyond any fixed system of living and dying." We "have to create one [sc. such a system], and to recreate it from time to time." For a human being, as Kant said, "is the one lawless being on earth unless [she or ] he makes [her or] his own laws and keeps them" (LP: 312).

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