Man in the struggle for peace

We are thrown into this world of struggle and care. We made neither our world nor ourselves: we find ourselves in this state. Before we can even ask the question "Why?" we must first exist, and, existing, we must recognize our condition such as it is: we are beings of care, beings who have our mind on all sorts of problems and concerns. Only such an existing being can "recognize" his state, and, in recognizing it, can ask the question "Why?" about it or about any other thing. The man who is not struggling or the man who is completely care free does not exist. This is our human condition, this is what it means to be a man, this is our fate. Here the word "fate" has nothing to do with chance or fatalism, with predestination or the necessity of nature, if by any of these terms is meant that in struggling and caring we are not essentially free and ac countable. Any notion that for anything involving our caring decision we can invoke some kismet, some deus ex machina, to relieve us of responsibility for that decision is utterly foreign to our mind. Man is as fated and doomed to be free and re sponsible as to struggle and care.