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Tears lubricate the eyes and protect them from dirt and infection. During normal flow, tears wash over the eye and drain through ducts into the nasal cavity. During heavy flow, the extra tears spill over the eyelids to wash away particles too large for the ducts.

As far as humans are aware there is no purpose why we cry when we are upset - it may be more of emotional reason (physical release for our pain) but our tear ducts are to wash away foreign objects in our eyes.

--I truly believe that tears have the purpose of clearing out dirt and debris from the eyes of babies in case they are dropped on the floor(this is of course thinking in the sense that this feature came to be thousands of years ago.)

(or somehow....)

it's something used to weep away the nonredeemable :)

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